Habit: Annual, not cobwebby.
Stem: erect, branched above; glabrous to glandular-hairy below, glandular but with 0 nonglandular hairs in inflorescence.
Leaf: simple, alternate; basal generally suberect in rosette, 2--15 cm, generally 2--3-pinnate, axis linear, lobes spaced, ascending, segments narrower than or equaling leaf axis, tips acute; hairs long, shiny, translucent, minutely gland-tipped; cauline leaves reduced.
Inflorescence: open; bracts linear or lobed at base; pedicels 1 or in unequal pairs, glandular; glands flat-topped, wider than stalk.
Flower: calyx membranes wider than lobes, generally purple-spotted; corolla > calyx, funnel-shaped, throat yellow-spotted; shortest anther generally attached perpendicular to corolla tube (except in
Saltugilia caruifolia); pollen blue.
Fruit: narrowly ovoid, valves separating from top.
Seed: 4--many per chamber, tan to golden, gelatinous when wet.
Chromosomes: 2n=18.
Species In Genus: 4 species: southern California, Baja California.
Etymology: (Latin: woodland + gilia, after Filippo Luigi Gilii, Italian naturalist, 1756--1821)
Note: Seed germination stimulated by charcoal.
Jepson eFlora Author: Leigh A. Johnson
Reference: Johnson 2007 Novon 17:193--197
Index of California Plant Names (ICPN; linked via the Jepson Online Interchange)Key to Saltugilia
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