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Linanthus bigelovii
Also called Bigelow's Deserttrumpets
A small annual wildflower of hot, dry deserts in the southwestern US and northern Mexico, with white, evening-opening blooms. It is a wild desert species, not a common garden plant, and grows from seed that germinates after winter or spring rains.
Linanthus bigelovii is a species of flowering plant in the phlox family known by the common name Bigelow's linanthus. It is native to the southwestern United States and northern Mexico where it grows mainly in dry habitat, such as the Sonoran and Mojave Deserts. This is an annual herb producing a thin stem up to about 20 centimetres tall. The leaves are linear in shape to needle-like and unlobed, measuring 1 to 3 centimetres long. The inflorescence is a small array of white flowers with lobes just under a centimetre long, and black centres. They are sometimes lavender-tinted and open in the evening.
Harkness' flaxflower · Desertbeauty · San Gabriel linanthus · Desertsnow · Fringed linanthus · Eveningsnow · Yellow gilia · Inyo gilia · Jones' linanthus · Baldwin Lake linanthus · Orcutt's linanthus · Sandblossoms
Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Linanthus bigelovii by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts and the care summary drawn from them are shared under the same licence.
The care summary was written by AI (Claude, Anthropic) from the sources on this page, with general growing knowledge where they are silent. Check before relying on it.
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.
