Calflora: Ipomopsis aggregata ssp. formosissima

Ipomopsis aggregata (Pursh) V. Grant ssp. formosissima (E. Greene) Wherry

Wherrey's Scarlet Gilia, scarlet gilia, western scarlet gilia

Ipomopsis aggregata ssp. formosissima, a dicot, is a perennial herb that is native to California and is also found outside of California, but is confined to western North America.

Elevation:	between 3608 and 8202 feet
Family:	POLEMONIACEAE
Related:	See a list of other species in the genus Ipomopsis found in California.
	See the more inclusive parent record Ipomopsis aggregata.

Name Status:

Accepted by PLANTS + JM93
TJM2: accepted name:		Ipomopsis aggregata ssp. aggregata

Other Names:

PLANTS:	Gilia aggregata ssp. formosissima
PLANTS:	Gilia aggregata var. maculata
PLANTS:	Gilia texana
PLANTS:	Ipomopsis aggregata ssp. texana
PLANTS:	Ipomopsis aggregata var. texana
PLANTS:	Ipomopsis arizonica ssp. texana

NOTE: Ipomopsis aggregata ssp. formosissima is not an active name in the Calflora species table.

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Distribution by County:

See a detailed Distribution Grid of this plant in California.

A shaded county indicates that there are ocurrence records of this plant within the county.

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	There are specimen records from this county in an herbarium.
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	There are reported records.
	There are reported records available indirectly (eg. in botanical literature).

Records by County, with approximate record counts in the form: TOTAL / CCH. Click county name to view records.

Alpine: 9 / 9 CCH Amador: 1 / 1 CCH Butte: 5 / 4 CCH El Dorado: 14 / 13 CCH Humboldt: 3 / 3 CCH Inyo: 5 / 5 CCH Lassen: 8 / 8 CCH Madera: 4 / 4 CCH Mono: 19 / 18 CCH Modoc: 9 / 9 CCH Mariposa: 1 / 1 CCH Nevada: 2 / 2 CCH Placer: 7 / 7 CCH Plumas: 21 / 18 CCH Shasta: 11 / 5 CCH Sierra: 2 / 2 CCH Siskiyou: 31 / 30 CCH Tehama: 1 / 1 CCH Trinity: 8 / 6 CCH Tulare: 1 / 1 CCH Tuolumne: 1 / 1 CCH

CCH: records provided by the participants of the Consortium of California Herbaria.

Information about Ipomopsis aggregata ssp. formosissima from other sources:

Photos on Picasa / Flickr / Google Images
website references on Google
USDA PLANTS Profile (IPAGF)
Nursery availability and horticultural info (what grows with this plant?) on CNPLX
Original Publication citation. on the International Plants Names Index
Search efloras.org (Flora of North America)
Search the Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center Native Plant Database