''Gilia clokeyi'' is a species of flowering plant in the phlox family known by the common name Clokey's gilia. It is native to the south-western United States from

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, where it grows in desert and other habitat. The herb produces an erect stem up to 17 centimeters tall often coated in cobwebby fibers on the lower parts and glandular hairs above. The lobed leaves are up to 3 centimeters long and are located in a basal rosette at ground level and also on the lower part of the stem. The top of the stem branches into an

inflorescence An inflorescence is a group or cluster of flowers arranged on a stem that is composed of a main branch or a complicated arrangement of branches. Morphologically, it is the modified part of the shoot of seed plants where flowers are formed o ...

bearing tiny flowers on thin

pedicels In botany, a pedicel is a stem that attaches a single flower to the inflorescence. Such inflorescences are described as ''pedicellate''. Description Pedicel refers to a structure connecting a single flower to its inflorescence. In the absenc ...

. The flower has a pouchlike calyx of

sepals A sepal () is a part of the flower of angiosperms (flowering plants). Usually green, sepals typically function as protection for the flower in bud, and often as support for the petals when in bloom., p. 106 The term ''sepalum'' was coined b ...

made up of ribs with membranous tissue between. The corolla emerges from the calyx, its narrow tubular throat yellow and white spotted and its face white and blue spotted or streaked.

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clokeyi Flora of the Southwestern United States Flora of the California desert regions North American desert flora Flora without expected TNC conservation status {{Polemoniaceae-stub