PLANT: Annual, 6-30(-45) cm tall, branched throughout; stems cobwebby below, glabrous to sparsely glandular above. LEAVES: sparsely cobwebby, reduced above the basal rosette; basal and lower lobed once or twice, the lobes entire or toothed; cauline entire or basally lobed. INFLORESCENCE: congested, with short pedicelled to subsessile flowers in terminal clusters. FLOWERS: calyx 3-5(-8) mm long, glabrous to sparsely cobwebby, the lobes acuminate to attenuate; corolla funnelform, 7-27 mm long, the tube equal to or longer than the calyx, violet or yellow, the throat yellow, the lobes pink to yellow with violet flecks; stamens inserted on the throat; anthers slightly exserted; stigma exserted or located among the anthers. CAPSULE: 5-8.5 mm long, broadly ovoid. NOTES: 2 subspp.; NV to TX and n Son. Incorrectly referred to Gilia tenuiflora Jones by Kearney and Peebles. REFERENCES: Dieter H. Wilken and J. Mark Porter, 2005, Vascular Plants of Arizona: Polemoniaceae. CANOTIA 1: 1-37.