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Navarretia capillaris

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Kingdom
  
Plantae

Family
  
Polemoniaceae

Scientific name
  
Navarretia capillaris

Rank
  
Species

Order
  
Ericales

Genus
  
Navarretia

Higher classification
  
Navarretia

Navarretia capillaris

Navarretia capillaris (formerly Gilia capillaris) is a species of flowering plant in the phlox family known by the common name miniature gilia. It is native to the western United States where it grows in wet, gravel-lined habitat especially in mountains, such as snowmelt runs.

It produces glandular stems coated thinly in hairs and lined with small lance-shaped or linear leaves only one or two millimeters wide. The tiny stem is topped with an inflorescence of one or more flowers each roughly a centimeter long. The calyx is an elongated pocket of fused sepals with lobes separating at the top. The fuzzy, glandular corolla is white to light blue with a yellowish throat.

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Navarretia capillaris Wikipedia