Gilia latiflora

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Gilia latiflora, known as hollyleaf gilia or broad-flowered gilia, is a flowering plant in the phlox family. It grows only in deserts and mountains of southern California and the nearby edge of Nevada, and it adds lavender color to spring wildflowers on sandy washes.

The plant starts from a basal rosette of frilly leaves made of many narrow lobes. The stem is usually small, and the plant sends up branched flower stalks directly from the ground, reaching up to about 0.5 meters tall. The calyx at the base of the flower is 2–7 millimeters long and often glandular. The flowers are fragrant. The corolla is 9–35 millimeters wide with a purple tube. The upper throat and lobe bases are white, grading to lavender toward the tips. Five stamens and a longer style protrude from the throat.