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Gilia capitata

Sims (1826)

This name is accepted

Kingdom: Viridiplantae Phylum: Magnoliophyta Class/Clade: Eudicot-Asterids Order: Ericales Family: Polemoniaceae Genus: Gilia

blue field gilia

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Description

Key Characters:

Growth Form: Annual herbs 2–8 dm tall.

Stems: Stems glabrous to glandular or ± floccose, upper ⅓ of plant branched.

Roots:

Leaves: Leaves simple. Alternate. Blades 4–10 cm long, the ultimate segments 1–7 mm long, 0.2–1 mm wide, upper leaves much–reduced. Margins of basal and lower leaves bipinnately dissected. Stipules absent.

Flowers: Flowers 50–100, subsessile, in terminal heads 1.4–4 cm in diameter. Flowers bisexual (perfect). Calyx deeply cleft, 5-lobed, ca. 3–4 mm long, the lobes acute, ca. 2 mm long, joined below by the scarious, membranous sinus, the costae green. Corolla connate, pale bluish violet, 6–8 mm long, the lobes 2–4 mm long. Stamens as many as calyx and corolla lobes, adnate to corolla tube, alternate with the lobes; anthers dithecal, opening by longitudinal slits. Ovary superior, 3-carpellate, 3-celled; ovule placentation axile; style simple; stigmas as many as carpels.

Fruit: Capsules subglobose; 3–4 mm in diameter; indehiscent or tardily dehiscent; disarticulating on the stipe above the calyx. Seeds 1–6(–10); ovoid; ± angled; 1.6–2 mm long.

Ploidy: 2n = 16; 18

Habitat:

Elevation Range: 2,400–2,500 m.

Historical Distribution

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Uses and Culture

USES

Natural History

Statewide Status

Naturalized

Island Status

Maui Naturalized

Dispersal Agents


Pollinators

Notes

  • 1929
  • 2400-2500 m
  • Description digitized by Joanne
  • Description digitized from the Manual of the Flowering Plants of Hawaii

Bibliography

Name Published In: Bot. Mag. 53: t. 2698 (1826)

Other References

Wagner et al. 1990:1057 (EM)

Occurrences

SNo. Scientific Name Locality Habitat Basis of Record Recorded By Record Number Island Source Date
1 Gilia capitata East Maui, Haleakala Preserved_Specimen Swezey, O.H. Maui BISH 1929-08-18
2 Gilia capitata Haleakala National Park, Front Country, Crater Rd, on road cut/lava, down road from 8500' Eucalyptus grove.. Subalpine shrubland/roadcut with Dubautia menziesii, Oenothere stricta subsp. stricta, and Plantago lanceolata. Preserved_Specimen Starr, F. 13072301 Maui BISH 2001-07-23
3 Gilia capitata East Maui, Haleakala Highway, 0.4 miles SW of Halemauu parking lot Growing on new fill material along highway. Preserved_Specimen Nagata, R. Maui BISH 1980-11-18
4 Gilia capitata East Maui, Haleakala National Park Roadside. Preserved_Specimen Nagata, K.M. 2572 Maui BISH 1982-11-20
5 Gilia capitata East Maui, Haleakala Preserved_Specimen Swezey, O.H. Maui BISH 1929-08-18
6 Gilia capitata East Maui, Kula, Waiakoa Preserved_Specimen Walker, Mrs.B. Maui BISH 1932-04-01
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