Gilia
angelensis
Annual
or perennial herbs or shrubs or vines. Leaves
alternate or opposite, simple or dissected or compound.
Inflorescence usually a paniculate glomerate or flat-topped cyme, or the
flowers in heads or even solitary. Flowers
complete, regular, mostly 5-, rarely 4- or 6-merous as to perianth and stamens.
Calyx herbaceous to variously membranous or chartaceous, accrescent after
anthesis or distended or ruptured by the capsule, variously cleft, the lobes
often with hyaline membrane between. Corolla
gamopetalous, campanulate to funnelform to slaverform, usually regular.
Stamens equally or unequally inserted, the filaments equal or unequal.
Ovary mostly 3-lobculed; style simple; stigma-lobes usually 3.
Fruit a capsule, usually regularly dehiscent.
Seeds 1 to many. About 18
genera and 350 species; most numerous in western North America.
(Munz, Flora So Calif. 638).
Many
members of this family are well known garden flowers and wildflowers in North
America. There are more native
species in California than elsewhere. (Dale
153).
Upper
Newport Bay species within the family:
Gilia
capitata ssp. abrotanifolia
Gilia
australis
Linanthus
dianthiflorus