Saltugilia splendens (splendid woodland-gilia)

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 8 separate observations

Saltugilia splendens, photographed by velodrome — fig. a velodrome, CC BY 4.0 / 2022-05-30 / obs. 202094421

Saltugilia splendens, photographed by Daniel S. — fig. c Daniel S., CC BY 4.0 / obs. 154862899

Saltugilia splendens, photographed by Jesse Rorabaugh — fig. g Jesse Rorabaugh, CC0 1.0 / obs. 36804846

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Native range 1 botanical country

Native distribution of Saltugilia splendens, 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
California	CAL	NORTHERN AMERICA

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 220 in flower of 221 examined

96%

100%

Proportion of examined Saltugilia splendens in flower, by month
Month	In flower	Examined	Share	95% interval
Jan	1	1	too few examined
Feb	1	1	too few examined
Mar	1	1	too few examined
Apr	26	27	96%	82% to 99%
May	60	60	100%	94% to 100%
Jun	73	73	100%	95% to 100%
Jul	36	36	100%	90% to 100%
Aug	12	12	100%	76% to 100%
Sep	4	4	too few examined
Oct	5	5	100%	57% to 100%
Nov	0	0	too few examined
Dec	1	1	too few examined

Peak flowering in May. Each bar is the share of Saltugilia splendens 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. 220 of 221 examined observations were in flower, every one of them research grade. The whisker on each bar is a 95% Wilson interval. 6 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 8 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 collina var. grantii Brand
Gilia grinnellii Brand
Gilia splendens Douglas ex H.Mason & A.D.Grant
Gilia splendens subsp. grantii (Brand) V.E.Grant & A.D.Grant
Gilia splendens subsp. grinnellii (Brand) H.Mason & A.D.Grant
Gilia tenuiflora var. grinnellii (Brand) Jeps.
Saltugilia grinnellii (Brand) L.A.Johnson
Saltugilia grinnellii subsp. grantii (Brand) L.A.Johnson

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.
USDA PLANTS Database. common name, checklist symbol SASP12. public domain. 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.

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