Gilia tricolorBenth.

bird's-eye gilia

WFO wfo-0000703168 Accepted WFO 2026-06 7 photographs CC0 / CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–g

Gilia tricolor, photographed by Arvel Hernandez
fig. a Arvel Hernandez, CC BY 4.0 / 2022-05-22 / obs. 200039465
Gilia tricolor, photographed by Ken-ichi Ueda
fig. b Ken-ichi Ueda, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 187823632
Gilia tricolor, photographed by Alex
fig. c Alex, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 198269624
Gilia tricolor, photographed by joergmlpts
fig. d joergmlpts, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 188397081
Gilia tricolor, photographed by rappman
fig. e rappman, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 186759850
Gilia tricolor, photographed by Cricket Raspet
fig. f Cricket Raspet, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 186506131
Gilia tricolor, photographed by Cricket Raspet
fig. g Cricket Raspet, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 186506378

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Flowering n = 739 observations

Peak flowering in Apr, from 739 community-annotated observations worldwide. This is a global aggregate, not a forecast for your garden: the same species flowers on different dates in different hemispheres, and citizen-science records cluster near cities, at weekends, and in spring. Where a species has fewer than 30 annotated records we do not draw this chart at all.

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 inconspicua subvar. diffusa Brand
  • Gilia tricolor f. nivalis Voss
  • Gilia tricolor var. longipedicellata Greenm.
  • Navarretia tricolor (Benth.) Kuntze

Sourcesevery claim on this page

  1. World Flora Online Plant List. accepted name, authority, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
  2. iNaturalist. photographs and flowering annotations, CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA only. per photograph. Retrieved 2026-06-27.

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