Wild Bouvardia
Gilia Grandiflora, Gray. Phlox or Polemonium Family
Stems.—Erect; a foot or two high. Leaves.—Two or three inches long; linear or oblong-lanceolate; sessile. Flowers.—Salmon-color; crowded at the summit of the stem. Calyx.—With obconic tube and broad, obtuse lobes. Corolla.—Narrowly funnel-form, with tube an inch long, and five-lobed border almost as broad. (See Gilia.) Hab.—Widely distributed.
This plant was formerly placed in the genus Collomia; but that genus was not well founded, and all its species have now been transferred to Gilia. From the resemblance of its showy buff or salmon-colored flowers to the Bouvardias of our gardens, these plants are popularly known as “wild Bouvardia.” The blossoms are found in early summer, and grow usually in dry places, exposed to the sun.
SULPHUR-FLOWER—Eriogonum umbellatum.