Aliciella latifolia (broad-leaf gilia)

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 8 separate observations

Aliciella latifolia, photographed by Tim Messick — fig. a Tim Messick, CC BY 4.0 / 2022-03-21 / obs. 185145697

Aliciella latifolia, photographed by Trevor Van Loon — fig. b Trevor Van Loon, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 184526424

Aliciella latifolia, photographed by Ken-ichi Ueda — fig. c Ken-ichi Ueda, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 47502451

Aliciella latifolia, photographed by joergmlpts — fig. d joergmlpts, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 32313316

Aliciella latifolia, photographed by W. Terry Hunefeld — fig. e W. Terry Hunefeld, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 6829876

Aliciella latifolia, photographed by Adam J. Searcy — fig. h Adam J. Searcy, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 87733641

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Native range 5 botanical countries

Native distribution of Aliciella latifolia, after Kew’s World Checklist of Vascular Plants. Introduced, extinct and doubtful records are excluded, so this is where the plant is from, not everywhere it now grows.

Region	TDWG code	Continent
Arizona	ARI	NORTHERN AMERICA
California	CAL
Mexico Northwest	MXN
Nevada	NEV
Utah	UTA

Region boundaries approximated from Natural Earth (public domain) and mapped to TDWG World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions (WGSRPD) level-3 botanical countries (Brummitt 2001). Indicative, not the official WGSRPD geometry.

Flowering 509 in flower of 703 examined

44%

73%

78%

95%

90%

100%

31%

46%

Proportion of examined Aliciella latifolia in flower, by month
Month	In flower	Examined	Share	95% interval
Jan	37	85	44%	34% to 54%
Feb	123	169	73%	66% to 79%
Mar	192	247	78%	72% to 82%
Apr	93	98	95%	89% to 98%
May	26	29	90%	74% to 96%
Jun	10	10	100%	72% to 100%
Jul	1	1	too few examined
Aug	0	0	too few examined
Sep	0	0	too few examined
Oct	0	0	too few examined
Nov	5	16	31%	14% to 56%
Dec	22	48	46%	33% to 60%

Peak flowering in Jun. Each bar is the share of Aliciella latifolia observations in which someone actually recorded the reproductive state and found the plant in flower, not the raw number of flowering records. That distinction matters: people observe plants far more in spring than in winter, so a bare count of flowering records partly measures when people go outside. Dividing by the number examined removes that. 509 of 703 examined observations were in flower, every one of them research grade. The whisker on each bar is a 95% Wilson interval. 4 months have fewer than 5 examined observations, so no proportion is drawn for them. This is still a global aggregate and not a forecast for your garden: the same species flowers on different dates in different hemispheres. Where a species has fewer than 30 flowering records we do not draw this chart at all. Computed from 10.15468/dl.cgje2x.

Also published as 4 synonyms

A synonym is not an error. It is a record of botanists disagreeing, in print, about where this plant belongs. Each of these was somebody’s considered answer.

Gilia imperialis (S.L.Welsh) S.L.Welsh & N.D.Atwood
Gilia latifolia S.Watson
Gilia latifolia var. imperialis S.L.Welsh
Navarretia latifolia (S.Watson) Kuntze

Sourcesevery claim on this page

World Flora Online Plant List. accepted name, authority, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
iNaturalist. photographs and flowering annotations, CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA only. per photograph. Retrieved 2026-06-27.
Wikidata. common name (P1843), joined on the World Flora Online identifier (P7715). CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-13.
Kew, World Checklist of Vascular Plants (WCVP v16). native distribution by TDWG level-3 botanical country, and life form. CC BY 3.0. Retrieved 2026-06-04.

We publish what we can source and we say so when we cannot. This page has no care advice and no toxicity claim, because we do not yet have those from a source we can cite.