Gilia capitata

GILIA capitata
Queen Anne's Thimbles

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Type:
Annual

Height: 12-15" (30-40cm)

Flowering Time: Summer

Flower Colour: Blue

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Botanical Classification:

Class:
Angiospermae (Angiosperms)

Subclass: Dicotyledonae (Dicotyledons)

Superorder: Asteridae (Daisy Superorder)

Order: Polemoniales (Jacob's Ladder Order)

Family: Polemoniaceae (Jacob's Ladder Family)

Genus: Gilia

Species: capitata (with a head)

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Gilia capitata is a hardy annual with stems reaching around a foot high, with deeply lobed leaves and tight, terminal clusters of blue flowers with prominent stamens in summer. Perhaps this is the reason for the common name - the flower head looks a bit like a pincushion with pins sticking in it.
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Harvesting and Growing from Seed:

Seed Pod
Each individual flower has its own seedpod in the dense chaffy seedhead. Each seedpod is a ball inside the calyx.

Seed
The seeds are small brown chips. There are several seeds in each seedpod.

Seedling
The seedleaves are fat and rounded. The first true leaves are very lobed.

Seed sowing and Germination
Spring: Seeds sown outside in spring germinated in 13 days.

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	Seed Pod Each individual flower has its own seedpod in the dense chaffy seedhead. Each seedpod is a ball inside the calyx.
	Seed The seeds are small brown chips. There are several seeds in each seedpod.
	Seedling The seedleaves are fat and rounded. The first true leaves are very lobed.
Seed sowing and Germination Spring: Seeds sown outside in spring germinated in 13 days.