| Collinsia heterophylla | |
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Scientific classification
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| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Eudicots |
| Clade: | Asterids |
| Order: | Lamiales |
| Family: | Plantaginaceae |
| Genus: | Collinsia |
| Species: | C. heterophylla
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| Binomial name | |
| Collinsia heterophylla | |
| Synonyms | |
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Collinsia bicolor Benth. | |
Collinsia heterophylla, known as purple Chinese houses [2] or innocence, is a flowering plant native to California and the Peninsular Ranges in northern Baja California. [1]
Description
Collinsia heterophylla is an annual plant growing in shady places, 10–50 centimetres (4–20 in) in height. It can be found in most of California (other than desert regions) below about 1,000 metres (3,300 ft).
It blooms from mid spring to early summer. Like other species in the genus Collinsia, which also includes the blue-eyed Marys, it gets its name from its towers of inflorescences of decreasing diameter, which give the plants in full flower a certain resemblance to a pagoda.
Dried in air, the seeds weigh about 1 mg each.
Varieties
Taxonomy
The species was first described as Collinsia bicolor by George Bentham in 1835, but this name proved to be a later homonym of Collinsia bicolor Raf. (described in 1824), necessitating the name change to C. heterophylla. Despite this, the name C. bicolor is still sometimes used in references. [5]
Gallery
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Collinsia heterophylla is also known by the common name Chinese Houses. -
Pressed and dried Collinsia heterophylla in an herbarium. -
Collinsia heterophylla blossoms on a stalk.
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References
- ^ a b ITIS Standard Report Page: Collinsia heterophylla
- ^ USDA, NRCS (n.d.). "Collinsia heterophylla". The PLANTS Database (plants.usda.gov). Greensboro, North Carolina: National Plant Data Team. Retrieved 17 January 2016.
- ^ USDA: Collinsia heterophylla var. austromontana
- ^ USDA: Collinsia heterophylla var. heterophylla
- ^ USDA: Classification (taxonomy)
External links
- Jepson Manual treatment of Collinsia heterophylla
- Collinsia heterophylla — photographs from the CalPhotos archive
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- Collinsia
- Flora of California
- Flora of Baja California
- Flora of the Cascade Range
- Flora of the Klamath Mountains
- Flora of the Sierra Nevada (United States)
- Natural history of the California chaparral and woodlands
- Natural history of the California Coast Ranges
- Natural history of the Central Valley (California)
- Natural history of the Channel Islands of California
- Natural history of the Peninsular Ranges
- Natural history of the San Francisco Bay Area
- Natural history of the Santa Monica Mountains
- Natural history of the Transverse Ranges
- Plants described in 1838
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