Everwilde Farms - 1 lb Globe Gilia Native Wildflower Seeds - Gold Vault Bulk Seed Packet

These pretty pincushion-like globes come in a lovely violet-blue hue. They are native to the West Coast but are grown as an annual in flower gardens across the US. The sweetly scented blossoms are also very attractive to butterflies. The Gilia genus contains mostly desert-loving plants, native to the area stretching from the western United States to South America. Spanish botanists Hipolito Ruiz and Jose Antonio Pavon found the first known Gilia species on their expedition to South America, later detailing it among other species in a 1794 publication of their research from Peru and Chile. They gave this family of flowers the name Gilia in honor of Filippo Luigi Gilii (1756-1821), an Italian naturalist whom they greatly admired for his research in South American native plant life at the Vatican Observatory.

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