Burke: Collinsia grandiflora vs. Collinsia wrightii

	Collinsia grandiflora	Collinsia wrightii
	large-flowered blue-eyed Mary, blue-lips blue-eyed Mary
Habit	Annual, the stem simple or branched, erect, 0.5-5 dm. tall, minutely pubescent.
Leaves	Lower leaves opposite, petiolate, often toothed when well developed; upper leaves opposite or whorled, entire, usually glabrous, becoming sessile upward, narrowly elliptic or oblong to nearly linear.
Flowers	Flowers 1-few on short pedicels in the axils of reduced upper leaves; calyx 5-8 mm. long, 5-lobed; corolla bi-labiate, blue with white or pinkish upper lip, 9-17 mm. long, the tube abruptly bent at a right angle to the calyx, shortly pouched at the bend; stamens 4.
Fruits	Capsule opening along 4 lines.

	Collinsia grandiflora	Collinsia wrightii
Flowering time	April-June
Habitat	Open, moist to rather dry areas, low to middle elevations in the mountains.
Distribution	Occurring west of the Cascades crest in Washington; British Columbia to California. [WildflowerSearch map] [BONAP county map]
Origin	Native
Conservation status	Not of concern
Sibling taxa	C. parviflora, C. rattanii, C. sparsiflora	C. grandiflora, C. parviflora, C. rattanii, C. sparsiflora
Web links	Local floras: BC, CA, OR, WA Local Web sites: CalFlora, CalPhotos, Flora NW, PNW Herbaria, Turner Photog. WildflowerSearch iNaturalist (observations) USDA Plants Database LBJ Wildflower Center SEINet Plants of the World Online Encyclopedia of Life Wikipedia Google Image Search	Local Web sites: Flora NW, PNW Herbaria WildflowerSearch iNaturalist (observations) USDA Plants Database LBJ Wildflower Center SEINet Plants of the World Online Encyclopedia of Life Wikipedia Google Image Search

Collinsia grandiflora

Collinsia wrightii

large-flowered blue-eyed Mary, blue-lips blue-eyed Mary

Habit

Annual, the stem simple or branched, erect, 0.5-5 dm. tall, minutely pubescent.

Leaves

Lower leaves opposite, petiolate, often toothed when well developed; upper leaves opposite or whorled, entire, usually glabrous, becoming sessile upward, narrowly elliptic or oblong to nearly linear.

Flowers

Flowers 1-few on short pedicels in the axils of reduced upper leaves;

calyx 5-8 mm. long, 5-lobed;

corolla bi-labiate, blue with white or pinkish upper lip, 9-17 mm. long, the tube abruptly bent at a right angle to the calyx, shortly pouched at the bend;

stamens 4.

Fruits

Capsule opening along 4 lines.