Gilia
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Read about Gilia in the Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture
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Gilia (Philipp Salvador Gil, Spanish botanist of the latter half of the eighteenth century, collaborator with Xaurez). Polemoniaceae. Annual, biennial or perennial herbs, mostly of western North America. Flowers small, of many colors, the corolla funnel- form to bell-shape or sometimes salverform, 5-lobed; stamens 5, inserted near the base of the corolla-tube, the filaments usually naked; ovary 3-loculed, with axile placentae, the stigmas 3 (or sometimes 2).—Nearly 100 species, as the genus is now understood by most botanists. Cilia is a very polymorphic genus, into which Gray now (Syn. Fl. 2, pt. 1, suppl.) throws Collomia, Linanthus, Leptosiphon, Lcptodactylon, Navarretia, Hugelia, Ipomopsis, Fenzlia. In this conception, Gilia is defined as follows: "Fls. naked, not involucel- late; calyx partly herbaceous, scarious below the sinuses; lobes narrow and acute; corolla salverform or funnelform to campanulate or almost rotate; filaments not bearded at base: seeds wingless: herbs, or a few suffruticose." In cult, only G. californica is woody. It is not certainly hardy in the E. Several of the gilias are popular garden annuals or biennials (a few perennial). They are of the easiest culture, being vigorous, hardy and floriferous. They are mostly dwarfish, and are excellent for low masses, edgings or rockeries. Seeds may be sown where the plants are to grow. Any good soil will suit them. Index. achilleaefolia, 8. aggregata, 12. alba, 6, 8, 10, 14. androsacea, 15. aureus, 16. californica, 18. capitata, 6. carmineus, 16. coccinea, 2. compacta, 10. congesta, 4. coronopifolia, 11. debilis, 5. densiflora. 14. dianthoides, 17. grandiflora, 1. hybridus, 16. laciniata, 7. liniflora, 13. linifolia, 13. major, 6, S. micrantha, 10. minima, 3. multicaulis, 9. nana, 10. nivalis, 10. rosea, 8, 10. 10. speciosa, 17. splendens, 10. tricolor, 10. G. abrotanifolia, Nutt., occurs in mountains back of Santa Barbara, and has been listed in collections of native plants for sale: 1-2 ft., simple or somewhat branched: lvs. ample, all tripinnately dissected, the ultimate segms. very narrow and acute and curved backward: fl. without markings (blue?), large, the lobes spreading, obovate and obtuse: stamens scarcely protruding.—G. chamiyssonis, Greene, is a segregate from G. achillaefolia: annual, but sometimes persisting over winter, 1 ft.: lvs. mostly twice pinnately dissected into linear segms.: branches few and peduncle-like, bearing large and dense heads of blue fls. Calif. L.H.B. N. Taylor. CH
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References
- Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture, by L. H. Bailey, MacMillan Co., 1963
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