Gilia
Family: Polemoniaceae
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CANOTIA (2005)
PLANT: Annual; simple to branched, leafy to scapose, glabrous, pubescent to glandular, the hairs sometimes loosely tangled like cobwebs. LEAVES: basal to alternate, entire to deeply pinnately lobed, the lobes completely confluent with the rachis, flat to terete. INFLORESCENCE: terminal, paniculate, open to congested, the basic unit composed of 2-7 pedicelled flowers subtended by a single bract, rarely solitary. FLOWERS: actinomorphic; calyx tube membranes usually ruptured in fruit, rarely remaining intact; corolla funnelform to salverform, the tube, throat, and lobes often with different hues; stamens equally to subequally inserted on the corolla tube or throat; filaments equal or unequal in length; anthers included to exserted; style included to exserted. CAPSULE: ovoid to spheroid; seeds 2-many per locule. NOTES: ca 40 spp.; w N.Amer, s S. Amer. (Felipe Luis Gil, Spanish botanist). REFERENCES: Dieter H. Wilken and J. Mark Porter, 2005, Vascular Plants of Arizona: Polemoniaceae. CANOTIA 1: 1-37.
Vascular plants of NE US and adjacent Canada
Cal tubular to campanulate, with prominent scarious or hyaline intervals between the more herbaceous ribs, commonly ruptured by the fr; cor funnelform or salverform to tubular; filaments generally equal and equally inserted; seeds 1-many per locule, sometimes becoming mucilaginous when wet; taprooted herbs with alternate (or all basal, or the lower opposite), entire to pinnatifid or ternate lvs, but without definite lfls; infl basically cymose. 60, New World, mainly w. U.S.

Gleason, Henry A. & Cronquist, Arthur J. 1991. Manual of vascular plants of northeastern United States and adjacent Canada. lxxv + 910 pp.

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Species within checklist: Escalante Canyon, Cap's Spring to BLM boundary || << 1 - 50 taxa >>
Acanthogilia gloriosa
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Aliciella formosa
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Aliciella haydenii
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Aliciella hutchinsifolia
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Aliciella latifolia
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Aliciella leptomeria
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Aliciella lottiae
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Aliciella mcvickerae
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Aliciella micromeria
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Aliciella nyensis
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Aliciella penstemonoides
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Aliciella pentstemonoides
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Aliciella pinnatifida
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Aliciella subnuda
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Aliciella triodon
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Allophyllum gilioides
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Allophyllum glutinosum
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Bryantiella palmeri
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Collomia heterophylla
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Collomiastrum debile
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Eriastrum wilcoxii
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Gilia abramsii
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Gilia achilleaefolia
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Gilia achilleifolia
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Gilia aliquanta
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Gilia alpina
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Gilia ambigua
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Gilia angelensis
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Gilia arenaria
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Gilia arenicola
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Gilia attenuata
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Gilia aurea
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Gilia australis
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Gilia austrooccidentalis
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Gilia bicolor
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Gilia brandegei
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Gilia brecciarum
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Gilia brevicula
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Gilia bridgesii
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Gilia caespitosa
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Gilia californica
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Gilia campanulata
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Gilia cana
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Gilia candida
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Gilia capillaris
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Gilia capitata
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Gilia caruifolia
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Gilia cephaloidea
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Gilia chamissonis
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Gilia ciliata
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