Gilia

Accepted species 40 Documented here 33 Family Polemoniaceae

Accepted species 40 in this genus

Every accepted species in the genus is listed. A name links to its page when we hold at least three commercially licensed photographs of it. Where we do not, the row shows how many we actually found, which is usually none.

SpeciesAuthority Usable photographsPage
Gilia capitata Sims 440 documented
Gilia tricolor Benth. 409 documented
Gilia achilleifolia Benth. 279 documented
Gilia stellata A.Heller 209 documented
Gilia sinuata Douglas ex Benth. 148 documented
Gilia angelensis V.E.Grant 125 documented
Gilia clivorum (Jeps.) V.E.Grant 111 documented
Gilia clokeyi H.Mason 101 documented
Gilia cana (M.E.Jones) A.Heller 81 documented
Gilia scopulorum M.E.Jones 78 documented
Gilia brecciarum M.E.Jones 47 documented
Gilia ophthalmoides Brand 43 documented
Gilia diegensis (Munz) A.D.Grant & V.E.Grant 41 documented
Gilia nevinii A.Gray ex Lyon 35 documented
Gilia nevinii A.Gray 35 documented
Gilia mexicana A.D.Grant & V.E.Grant 30 documented
Gilia tenuiflora Benth. 29 documented
Gilia millefoliata Fisch. & C.A.Mey. 23 documented
Gilia transmontana (H.Mason & A.D.Grant) A.D.Grant & V.E.Grant 22 documented
Gilia minor A.D.Grant & V.E.Grant 21 documented
Gilia flavocincta A.Nelson 20 documented
Gilia latiflora A.Gray 18 documented
Gilia laciniata Ruiz & Pav. 15 documented
Gilia lyndana Allred 12 documented
Gilia leptantha Parish 11 documented
Gilia austrooccidentalis (A.D.Grant & V.E.Grant) A.D.Grant & V.E.Grant 10 documented
Gilia inconspicua (Sm.) Sweet 10 documented
Gilia ochroleuca M.E.Jones 9 documented
Gilia crassifolia Benth. 8 documented
Gilia malior A.G.Day & V.E.Grant 6 documented
Gilia modocensis Eastw. 5 documented
Gilia latimeri (T.L.Weese & L.A.Johnson) V.E.Grant 4 documented
Gilia salticola Eastw. 4 documented
Gilia aliquanta A.D.Grant & V.E.Grant 2 below the evidence gate
Gilia yorkii Shevock & A.G.Day 1 below the evidence gate
Gilia interior (H.Mason & A.D.Grant) A.D.Grant 0 below the evidence gate
Gilia karenae Kass & S.L.Welsh 0 below the evidence gate
Gilia lomensis V.E.Grant 0 below the evidence gate
Gilia tweedyi Rydb. 0 below the evidence gate
Gilia valdiviensis Griseb. 0 below the evidence gate

Why some species have no pagethe gate

This site is commercial, so it can only publish photographs licensed for commercial use. Roughly three quarters of the photographs on iNaturalist are CC BY-NC, which excludes them. A species needs at least three usable photographs before we will build it a page, because a page with one picture and no traits tells you nothing you could not get from a search result, and generating hundreds of thousands of those is precisely the practice that got the previous version of this site deleted.

So the species above without a link are not errors and they are not omissions. They are real, accepted plants that we cannot yet document to the standard we hold ourselves to, and the count in the photographs column is exactly how far short we fall.

Sourcesevery claim on this page

  1. World Flora Online Plant List. Accepted names, authorities, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
  2. iNaturalist. Photograph counts, restricted to CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA. Retrieved 2026-06-27.