Known as Scarlet Gilia, this attractive rosette-forming biennial or short-lived perennial is found in open sandy areas North and South America. Clear pink or red trumpet-shaped flowers, flared to a star at the outer end, are borne over a long season above finely divided silver-specked green foliage.

Ipomopsis aggregata subsp. aggregata NNS07-277 has many small, brilliant red, slender trumpet flowers arrayed along the upright stems.