Linanthus pungens
Polemoniaceae
Granite Gilia
Small shrub. Leaves tiny, needle-like, with very sharp tips, living leaves clustered at tips of branches, persisting, turning black on lower parts of stems after dying. Flowers with funnel-shaped tube, white to salmon pink with purplish shading, opening in evening, continuing next day only with cloud cover. Grows in rocky open places, shrub-steppe, open dry forests, subalpine talus or granite slopes, in high deserts at all elevations.
- Rarity: Common
- Flowering Time: Early Spring, Mid Spring, Late Spring, Early Summer, Mid Summer
- Flower Form: 5 petals, short trumpets (phlox famly)
- Life Cycle: Perennial
- Height: 4–24 inches
- Habitat: East-side Forest, Shrub-Steppe, Subalpine
- Found In: Crater Lake NP, Great Basin, Steens
- Native: Yes
- Latin Synonyms: Leptodactylon pungens
