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Image of salt gilia

Image of salt gilia

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jepson eflora:Stem: branches spreading, 4--20 cm, densely tufted-woolly-hairy. Leaf: basal in rosette, densely tufted-woolly-hairy, 1--2-pinnate-lobed, axis, lobes 2--3 mm wide, entire or toothed. Inflorescence: open clusters, black-gland-dotted. Flower: calyx 2.2--3.8 mm, glabrous or tufted-woolly-hairy, lobes acuminate, outcurved in fruit, membranes dull purple-spotted or colorless; corolla 6--15 mm, tube included, yellow, throat yellow, lobes 3--6 mm, generally > throat, bright pink-lavender; stamens, style equaling to exceeding corolla lobes. Fruit: 4--6 mm, < calyx, ovoid. Seed: 10--15. Intermountain Flora describes this taxon more thoroughly, in part, describing the corolla: pink purple lobes, throat yellow white above

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