''Aliciella subacaulis'' (formerly ''Gilia subacaulis'') is a species of flowering plant in the phlox family known by the common name pinyon gilia. It is native to the western United States from

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, where it grows in several types of habitat, such as sagebrush and desert woodlands. This herb produces a glandular stem up to about 30 centimeters tall, surrounded at the base by an erect cluster of lobed leaves each up to 7 centimeters long. There are also smaller, unlobed leaves along the stem. The

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is a loose cluster of purple-washed white flowers with yellow-spotted throats.

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