Index / Search / Ipomopsis aggregata ssp. formosissima

§1 Plant

Ipomopsis aggregata (Pursh) V.E. Grant ssp. formosissima (Greene) Wherry

vernacular scarlet gilia — subspecies · Polemoniaceae


USDA
IPAGF
GBIF
4274784
Rank
subspecies
scarlet gilia (Ipomopsis aggregata ssp. formosissima)
Platephotograph · Nate MartineauCC BY-NC source · iNaturalist ↗

§2Habit & range

Habit and range

Growth habit
Forb/herb
Duration
Biennial, Perennial
Group
Dicot
Family
Polemoniaceae Juss.
Genus
Ipomopsis
§2a

Native status, by region

  • L48 Lower 48 States Native
§2b

County-level range

· 71 counties across 8 states/territories
Legend Native · 71 Introduced · 0 Both · 0 Hover a county for detail.

§3Cultivation

No cultivation specs.

USDA has not characterised this taxon. Roughly four out of five plants in the database lack the detailed cultivation record present here — typically because they have not been the focus of NRCS Plant Materials work. Range and distribution data are unaffected.


§4Counties, by state

Recorded in 71 counties across 8 states/territories.

Arizona view state ↗ 9 N
Colorado view state ↗ 1 N
Nevada view state ↗ 3 N
New Mexico view state ↗ 21 N
Oregon view state ↗ 23 N
Texas view state ↗ 8 N
Utah view state ↗ 4 N
Washington view state ↗ 2 N

§5Sources & provenance

USDA PLANTS

Symbol, taxonomy, distribution, cultivation specs, native status. Public domain.

plants.usda.gov/IPAGF ↗

GBIF Backbone

Canonical taxonomic identity, synonym resolution, cross-refs. CC0.

gbif.org/species/4274784 ↗

Record version

Cached and built locally. Source version on this record:

usda-plants-mt-2026-05-26

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