Gilia leptantha
| Gilia leptantha | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Eudicots |
| Clade: | Asterids |
| Order: | Ericales |
| Family: | Polemoniaceae |
| Genus: | Gilia |
| Species: | G. leptantha
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| Binomial name | |
| Gilia leptantha Parish
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Gilia leptantha is a species of flowering plant in the phlox family known by the common name fineflower gilia.
It is native to California and southern Nevada, where it grows in open mountain and desert habitat.
Description
[edit]Gilia leptantha is a small, mostly erect herb with a glandular stem often coated in cobwebby fibers. The leaves are arranged in a rounded basal rosette, each leaf divided sharply into many subdivided lobes.
The top of the stem is an inflorescence of a few pink to lavender flowers with yellow and white throats. The base of the flower is a thin, glandular tube.
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Categories:
- Gilia
- Flora of California
- Flora of Nevada
- Flora of the California desert regions
- Flora of the Sierra Nevada (United States)
- Natural history of the California chaparral and woodlands
- Natural history of the Mojave Desert
- Natural history of the Santa Monica Mountains
- Natural history of the Transverse Ranges
- Plants described in 1900
- Taxa named by Samuel Bonsall Parish
- Polemoniaceae stubs