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Annual, perennial herb, shrub, vine.
Leaf: simple or compound, cauline (or most basal), alternate or opposite; stipules 0.
Inflorescence: cymes, heads, clusters, or flower 1; bracts in involucres or not.
Flower: sepals generally 5, fused at base, translucent membrane generally connecting lobes, torn by fruit; corolla generally 5-lobed, radial or bilateral, salverform to bell-shaped, throat often well defined; stamens generally 5, epipetalous, attached at >= 1 level, filaments of >= 1 length, pollen white, yellow, blue, or red; ovary superior, chambers generally 3, style 1, stigmas generally 3.
Fruit: capsule.
Seed: 1–many, when wetted swelling or not, gelatinous or not.
26 genera, 314 species: Am, n Eur, n Asia; some cultivated (Cantua, Cobaea (cup-and-saucer vine), Collomia, Gilia, Ipomopsis, Linanthus, Phlox). [Porter & Johnson 2000 Aliso 19:55–91] Leptodactylon moved to Linanthus. —Scientific Editors: Robert Patterson, Thomas J. Rosatti.

Key to Polemoniaceae

Annual.
Stem: decumbent to erect, glabrous, hairy, glandular, or tufted-woolly-hairy.
Leaf: simple, 1–2- pinnate-lobed or - dissected, generally alternate, tips acute, acuminate, or mucronate; basal generally in rosette, entire, toothed, or 1–2- pinnate-lobed; cauline generally reduced.
Inflorescence: flowers 1–many in bract axils.
Flower: calyx membranous between lobes, membranes splitting or expanding in fruit; corolla > calyx, lobes generally ovate, acute or acuminate.
Fruit: spheric to ovoid; chambers 3; valves separating from top, to base and detaching or not to base and staying attached to receptacle.
Seed: 3–many, yellow to brown, gelatinous when wet.
± 40 species: w North America, South America. (Filippo L. Gilii, Italian naturalist, 1756–1821) Stamens, styles said to be exserted protrude beyond fused part of corolla, that is, beyond corolla throat. Other taxa in TJM (1993) moved to Aliciella, Lathrocasis, Linanthus, Navarretia, Saltugilia. Gilia mexicana A.D. Grant & V.E. Grant recently found in San Diego Co.
Unabridged note: Gilia can be challenging to identify. Several small-flowered species are only cryptically different from one another and many traits overlap. In order to successfully use the key, it is important to note pattern and distribution of flower color at the time of collection, as it may fade upon drying. Depauperate specimens may be particularly difficult if not impossible to identify using ordinary means. Descriptions of flowers follows previous authors (Day 1993; Grant & Grant 1956) in subdividing fused part of corolla into tube (basal part with parallel sides) and throat (flared part distal to tube). It is important to note that in some cases these definitions do not refer to homologous parts of the corolla.

Stem: branches suberect, 15–30 cm, densely tufted-woolly-hairy below middle, glandular above.
Leaf: lower in rosette, densely tufted-woolly-hairy, 1–2- pinnate-lobed, axis linear, lobes spreading, generally toothed (or lobed) on both sides.
Inflorescence: pedicels unequal, thread-like.
Flower: calyx 2.5–4.5 mm, glabrous, lobes acuminate, ± red; corolla 7–12 mm, tube 1.5–2 × calyx, slender, purple, throat >= lobes, narrow, long- tapered, bright yellow, lobes 1–3 mm, pink; stamens, style ± exserted.
Fruit: 4–6.5 mm, generally < calyx, ovoid; valves detaching.
Seed: 6–12.
2n=36. Open, rocky soil, generally pinyon/juniper woodland; 1100–2600 m. n East of Sierra Nevada, White and Inyo Mountains, Desert Mountains;

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Chart based on elevation range in Manual and elevations and coordinates of CCH records. Data provided by the participants of the Consortium of California Herbaria. Note: About half of the CCH records include both elevation and coordinates.	Map made in collaboration with Scott Loarie. Data provided by the participants of the Consortium of California Herbaria. View all CCH records   CCH collections by month Duplicates counted once; synonyms included. Species do not include records of infraspecific taxa. Blue line denotes Manual flowering time.