Facts about gilias

• Gilia is an American flowering plant allied to phlox and the garden sweet william.
• The gilia plant belongs to the family Polemoniaceae.
• Numerous species of gilia are found on the plains and in the mountains as far west as the Pacific coast.
• The genus includes two species, G. linearis, found on dry soils, and G. rubra, growing along roads and meadows.
• Gilias vary greatly from low matted plants clinging to the crevices of a mountain slope to tall, imposing meadow plants. The gilia of the west corresponds to the phlox of the east.