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Pronunciation: lep-toe-SY-fon kris-AN-thus
Common name: Golden gilia
Family: Polemoniaceae (Phlox)
Habitat: Desert flats, sandy places below 6000', creosote bush scrub, joshua tree woodland, Mojave and Colorado Deserts, and cismontane interior valleys, locally common
Blooming period: March to June
Name derivations: 1) Leptosiphon 2) chrysanthus
Formerly Leptosiphon aureus ssp. aureus