Bird's-eye gilia
Gilia tricolor Benth.
- light
- Full sun
- water
- —
- tall
- 30 cm
- wide
- 30 cm
Polemoniaceae
Formerly Navarretia tricolor
When it flowers
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Not known yet in the tropics: too few flowering observations to read a season from.
PetsNo pet-safety information yet
PeopleNo safety information yet
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Something wrong with it?About it
- Grows as
- AnnualKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Climate
- SubtropicalKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Wild in
- CaliforniaKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Light
- Full sun (6 h or more)Read from Royal Horticultural Society, one source
- Height
- 10 cm to 51 cmRead from Royal Horticultural Society, one source
- Spread
- 10 cm to 51 cmRead from Royal Horticultural Society, one source
- Flowers
- Yellow, purple, violetRead from Wikipedia, one source
Not known yet: water, coldest it survives, heat, hottest it survives.
In other languages (2)
- Czech
- proměnka trojbarvá
- Chinese
- 三色吉莉
Where this comes from
- Wikidata, read 2026-10-25, CC0-1.0
- Kew's checklist, read 2026-10-24, CC-BY-4.0
- Royal Horticultural Society, read 2026-10-26, fact, cited
- Wikipedia, read 2026-10-25, fact, cited
- Wikimedia Commons, read 2026-10-25, CC BY 2.0
- 3D model: Gilia tricolor (built for Vanagrha) by Vanagrha, own
A fact “checked by a majority of its sources” was settled by a vote of the pages it was read from, not by a person reading it; one marked “one source” rests on that page alone. Anything else not marked checked has not been checked yet. Where nothing is known, the page says so rather than guess.