Bird's Eyes
Gilia tricolor
Bird's eyes is a charming California annual whose small flowers combine a violet throat, yellow eye, and pale blue lobes, and smell faintly of chocolate. An easy, fragrant reseeder for sunny gardens.
- Family
- Polemoniaceae
- Type
- wildflower
- Lifespan
- annual
- Height
- 0.5–1.5 ft
- Spacing
- 0.3–0.6 ft apart
- Light
- sun
- Soil moisture
- dry
- Soil pH
- neutral
- Bloom
- March, April
- Bloom colors
- blue, purple
- Wildlife value
- pollinators, butterflies
- Landscape uses
- border, container
- Native states
- CA