Plants, Flowers
& Cactus
SCARLET
GILIA
Skyrocket
Ipomopsis aggregata
SCARLET
GILIA
Skyrocket
Ipomopsis aggregata
Scarlet gilia
or skyrocket has been known to modern science since 1806,
when western explorers Lewis and Clark collected the first specimen
in the mountains of northern Idaho. This is a striking plant, with
bright green, comb-like leaves and an elongated inflorescence of red,
pink, or white flowers. Each flower forms an elongated tube that bursts
into five spreading corolla lobes at the tip.
