Ipomopsis aggregata, May 19, 2022
I. aggregata, second bloom of season, Twin Lakes area, 9,300’, August 17, 2022
Common & scientific name
Scarlet gilia, Ipomopsis aggregata
Family
Phlox, Polemoniaceae
Location
Roadside near Difficult, 8,100’
Fun, weird, helpful, or little known fact
Scarlet gilia, also know as Fairy trumpet, is among our most flamboyant and unmistakeable wildflowers. Like Old Man of the Mountain, Green Gentian, and other of our well known wildflowers, these gleaming crimson trumpets are monocarpic—that is, they bloom once, after a half dozen or so years of storing up nutrients in their roots, then die.