Globe Gilia
Gilia capitata
Ferny-leaved annual lofting powder-blue pincushion flower globes on wiry stems. A magnet for native bees and an effortless self-sower. The seed is recorded as an Indigenous food, without detail on how it was prepared.
- Family
- Polemoniaceae
- Type
- wildflower
- Lifespan
- annual
- Height
- 0.5–3.5 ft
- Spacing
- 1–2 ft apart
- Light
- sun
- Soil moisture
- dry
- Soil pH
- neutral
- Bloom
- May, June, July
- Bloom colors
- blue
- Wildlife value
- pollinators
- Landscape uses
- border, naturalizing
- Native states
- AK, CA, ID, NY, OH, OR, UT, WA