Commemorating Felipe Gil, an 18th century Spanish botanist.
Annual biennial or perennial herbs. Leaves alternate, mostly basal and pinnately lobed, occasionally entire, hairy, sometimes with glands. Flower clusters branched or in a flat-topped compact head, occasionally solitary. Sepals 5. Petals mostly 5, funnel- or salver-shaped. Fruit a 3-chambered capsule, bursting the calyx at maturity.
Grown as annuals, either in pots, beds or borders, for the fine foliage and clusters of flowers produced in summer and autumn.
Seed.
Flowers in clusters; stamens not bent in the flower tube; capsule bursting the calyx when mature.
25 species from SW USA and southern South America.
Source: (2002). Polemoniaceae. In: . Horticultural Flora of South-eastern Australia. Volume 4. Flowering plants. Dicotyledons. Part 3. The identification of garden and cultivated plants. University of New South Wales Press.