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Ipomopsis gunnisonii
Also called Sand Dune Gilia, Sand Dune Skyrocket, Sanddune Skyrocket
Ipomopsis gunnisonii, the sand-dune skyrocket, sand-dune gilia, or Gunnison gilia, is a small herbaceous plant that grows annually in sandy areas of the Four Corners Region and westward into Arizona and Utah. Together with its genus it is part of the phlox family.
Sand-dune skyrocket is native to four western US states, Arizona, Utah, New Mexico, and Colorado. In Arizona it grows in northern parts of the state in the canyon lands, as far west as Coconino and Yavapai counties and in Navajo and Apache counties in the east. It grows widely in the south and east of Utah in Kane, Garfield, Wayne, San Juan, Emery, and Grand counties. In New Mexico and Colorado it only grows in one county in each state, San Juan County, New Mexico and Montezuma County, Colorado. It can be found at elevations of as low as 1,125 meters (3,700 ft) in Utah, and up to 2,200 meters (7,200 ft).
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Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Ipomopsis gunnisonii 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.
