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Linanthus pungens
Also called Prickly Phlox, Sharp Linanthus, Granite Gilia
Granite prickly phlox is a low, woody, mat-forming or erect shrub native to dry, rocky ground in western North America, valued for its fragrant, night-opening flowers. It thrives in poor, well-drained soil and needs little water once established.
Linanthus pungens (syn. Leptodactylon pungens) is a species of flowering plant in the phlox family known by the common names granite prickly-phlox and granite gilia. It is native to western North America from British Columbia to Baja California and east to Montana and New Mexico.
This plant occurs in pine forests, pinyon-juniper woodlands, sagebrush steppe, and grasslands, and their ecotones. It can be found in subalpine and alpine climates. It can be found in mountain passes and high-elevation fell fields and in lower elevation desert washes. It can tolerate a wide range of conditions, from harsh winters on exposed mountain slopes to hot summers in desert valleys. It is more common in dry climates with low levels of precipitation, and it is tolerant of drought. The plant grows in poor, shallow, rocky, sandy, and salty soils, sometimes in thin layers of soil overlying bedrock. It can grow and is common on volcanic soils, such as pumice, lava and andesite. It is a dominant species in some areas, for example, the white pine-mountain hemlock forests and shrublands in El Dorado County, California, and the sagebrush near the U.S. Sheep Experiment Station in eastern Idaho.
Harkness' flaxflower · Desertbeauty · Bigelow's linanthus · San Gabriel linanthus · Desertsnow · Fringed linanthus · Eveningsnow · Yellow gilia · Inyo gilia · Jones' linanthus · Baldwin Lake linanthus · Orcutt's linanthus
Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Linanthus pungens 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.
