ssp. decorus (A. Gray) J.M. Porter & L.A. Johnson
Pronunciation: lep-toe-SY-fon AW-ree-us de-KOR-us
Common name: Cream gilia
Family: Polemoniaceae (Phlox)
Habitat: Desert flats, sandy places to 6000', creosote
bush scrub and joshua tree woodland, both deserts,
occasional in interior cismontane valleys
Blooming period: March to June
Click for Latin name derivations: 1) Leptosiphon 2) aureus
3) decorus
Formerly Linanthus aureus ssp. decorus