Broad-flowered Gilia

Gilia latiflora is lavender-colored. The plant starts from a basal rosette of frilly leaves, each of which is made up of many narrow-toothed lobes. The stem is generally too small to notice; instead the plant is scapose, sending stemlike inflorescences directly up from the ground. Each multibranched inflorescence is green to reddish in color and approaches half a meter in maximum height. The calyx is 2–7 millimetres (0.1–0.3 in) and is more or less glandular. The flowers are fragrant. The corolla is 9–35 millimetres (0.4–1.4 in) across with a purple tube. The upper throat and lobe bases are white grading to lavender at the tips. Protruding from the throat are generally five stamens and one longer style.