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Pronunciation: lep-toe-SY-fon kris-AN-thus de-KOR-us
Common name: Cream gilia
Family: Polemoniaceae (Phlox)
Habitat: Desert flats, sandy places to 6000', creosote bush scrub and joshua tree woodland, both deserts, occasional in interior cismontane valleys
Blooming period: March to June
Name derivations: 1) Leptosiphon 2) chrysanthus 3) decorus
Formerly Leptosiphon aureus ssp. decorus