Common Name: PHLOX FAMILY Habit: 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. Genera In Family: 26 genera, 314 species: America, northern Europe, northern Asia; some cultivated (Cantua, Cobaea (cup-and-saucer vine), Collomia, Gilia, Ipomopsis, Linanthus, Phlox). Note:Leptodactylon moved to Linanthus. eFlora Treatment Author: Robert W. Patterson, family description, key to genera, except as noted Scientific Editor: Robert W. Patterson, Thomas J. Rosatti.
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. Etymology: (Latin: woodland + gilia, after Filippo Luigi Gilii, Italian naturalist, 1756--1821) Note: Seed germination stimulated by charcoal. eFlora Treatment Author: Leigh A. Johnson Reference: Johnson 2007 Novon 17:193--197
Saltugilia caruifolia (Abrams) L.A. Johnson
NATIVE Stem: generally 1, 10--100 cm. Inflorescence: distal branches spreading; pedicel 1--11 mm. Flower: calyx 3--4 mm, generally glabrous or in age so; corolla 7--13 mm, tube exserted, glabrous, purple, throat white or not, lobes lavender to blue, base purple-marked, tips round; stamens attached at mid-throat, exserted, generally >= corolla lobes; style > stamens. Fruit: 3--5 mm, 1--1.5 × calyx. Seed: 4--7 per chamber. Ecology: Openings in chaparral or forest, rocky soil; Elevation: 1400--2300 m. Bioregional Distribution: PR; Distribution Outside California: Baja California. Flowering Time: May--Aug Synonyms: Gilia caruifolia Abrams 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) Listed on CNPS Rare Plant Inventory Previous taxon: Saltugilia australis Next taxon: Saltugilia latimeri
Citation for this treatment: Leigh A. Johnson 2012, Saltugilia caruifolia, in Jepson Flora Project (eds.) Jepson eFlora, https://ucjeps.berkeley.edu/eflora/eflora_display.php?tid=80330, accessed on April 16, 2024.
Citation for the whole project: Jepson Flora Project (eds.) 2024, Jepson eFlora, https://ucjeps.berkeley.edu/eflora/, accessed on April 16, 2024.
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