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Ipomopsis congesta
Also called Ball Head Gilia, Ball Head Skyrocket, Ballhead Gilia, Ballhead Skyrocket
Ipomopsis congesta is a species of flowering plant in the phlox family, commonly called ballhead skyrocket. It is native to much of western North America, where it grows in many habitats from alpine peaks to low-elevation scrub. It is a perennial herb which varies in appearance, especially across subspecies and climates. It may take the form of a squat patch with stems under 10 centimeters in height or a more erect form up to 30 centimeters tall. The stems are often hairy to woolly. The thick leaves are usually fork-shaped with a number of clawlike lobes and 1 to 4 centimeters long. The flowers appear in a rounded, dense cluster atop the stem. Each flower is bell-shaped to funnel-shaped and white with a pale yellow throat and protruding yellow or white stamens. There are several subspecies, many of which were formerly considered species of Gilia.
Ballhead skyrockets are native to the western United States from as far east as the Dakotas to the Pacific states, a total of 14 states. In the northwest it grows in just Spokane County, Washington, but is common in the counties of southern Oregon and is also found in three counties in the north. To the east in Idaho the species is recorded in the majority of southern counties and in eight of Montana's counties. At the eastern edge of its range it is only native to the westernmost counties of North Dakota, South Dakota, and Nebraska. It has been found in all but three of the counties in Wyoming, but is much more scattered in Colorado and mostly found in the west of the state. In New Mexico and Arizona it is recorded in just two counties in each state, San Juan, Sandoval, Apache, and Navajo, respectively. It is common in both Utah and in Nevada, but is only found at the northeastern edge of California in and to the east of the high Sierra Nevadas and Klamath Mountains.
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Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Ipomopsis congesta by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts are shared under the same licence.
Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.
