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Pronunciation: saul-to-JEEL-ee-a (or saul-to-GIL-ee-a*) aw-STRAY-lis
Common name: Southern woodland-gilia
Family: Polemoniaceae (Phlox)
Habitat: Sandy places below 4000', coastal sage scrub, chaparral, creosote bush scrub and joshua tree woodland, Peninsular Range, desert mountains, Transverse Range
Blooming period: March to June
Name derivations: 1) Saltugilia 2) australis
*When an epithet is derived from a personal name, an attempt should be made to preserve the pronunciation of the original name, which in this case is Gilii. In Italian a ‘g’ before an ‘i’ has a soft rather than a hard sound, and ‘i’ is pronounced as ‘ee’, so Gilia should properly be said as ‘JEE-lee-uh.’ Most people however will continue to say it as GIL-ee-a.