''Navarretia capillaris'' (formerly ''Gilia capillaris'') is a species of flowering plant in the phlox family known by the common name miniature gilia. It is native to the western United States where it grows in wet, gravel-lined habitat especially in mountains, such as snowmelt runs. It produces glandular stems coated thinly in hairs and lined with small lance-shaped or linear leaves only one or two millimeters wide. The tiny stem is topped with 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 ...

of one or more flowers each roughly a centimeter long. The calyx is an elongated pocket of fused

sepal 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 ...

s with lobes separating at the top. The fuzzy, glandular corolla is white to light blue with a yellowish throat.

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capillaris Alpine flora Flora of the Western United States Flora of California Flora of the Sierra Nevada (United States) Flora of the Rocky Mountains Flora without expected TNC conservation status {{Polemoniaceae-stub