Collinsia bartsiifolia |
Collinsia callosa |
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white blue-eyed Mary, white collinsia |
desert collinsia, desert mountain blue-eyed Mary, largefruit blue-eyed Mary |
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Habit | Annuals 5–35 cm. | Annuals 4–25 cm, fleshy. | ||||||||||||
Stems | erect to ascending or decumbent. |
erect to ascending. |
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Leaf | blades lanceolate-oblong to oblong, 1–4 cm, margins crenate. |
blades oblong to ovate, length usually less than 6 times width, base of distals clasping, margins usually entire. |
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Inflorescences | sparsely and obscurely glandular or shaggy-hairy or densely glandular; whorls (1 or)2–7 on main axis, sometimes fewer on branches; nodes (2 or)3–6-flowered; flowers crowded; distalmost bracts linear, 3–5(+) mm. |
glandular; nodes 1–3-flowered; flowers not crowded; distalmost bracts ovate, 2–3 mm. |
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Pedicels | ascending to spreading, shorter than calyx, not or scarcely visible. |
ascending to spreading, longer than calyx, visible. |
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Flowers | calyx lobes oblong to ovate, equal to capsule, apex rounded; corolla whitish to pinkish, banner lobes and wings rarely purple-tipped and/or with purple spots at base, 8–20 mm, glabrous or glandular; banner length 0.5–0.9+ times wings, lobe base without folds, tube longer than diam., hairy inside; banner lobes ± oblong, toothed, backs often touching or parallel, wings ± oblong to obovate, entire or notched; stamens: abaxial filaments glabrous or hairy, adaxials hairy, basal spur 0(or 1). |
calyx campanulate to urceolate, lobes narrowly deltate to lanceolate, equal to capsule, apex subacute to rounded; corolla lavender-blue, rarely pink, lobe base white, keel tip purple, 7–9 mm; banner length 0.8–1 times wings, lobe base without folds; stamens: filaments glabrous, adaxials rarely sparsely hairy, basal spur 0(or 1). |
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Seeds | 8–16, oblong to ovate, sometimes prismatic or hourglass-shaped, 0.8–1.5 mm, margins thickened, inrolled. |
6–8, oblong to hourglass-shaped, 1.8–2.5 mm, margins thickened, inrolled. |
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Collinsia bartsiifolia |
Collinsia callosa |
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Phenology | Flowering Apr–Jun. | |||||||||||||
Habitat | Disturbed, rocky slopes, open chaparral, sagebrush scrub, pinyon/juniper or pine woodlands. | |||||||||||||
Elevation | 1000–2300 m. (3300–7500 ft.) | |||||||||||||
Distribution |
CA
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CA
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Discussion | Varieties 4 (4 in the flora). (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
Collinsia callosa occurs primarily on the eastern sides of the southernmost Coast Ranges, Transverse Ranges, and southern Sierra Nevada. A report of this species from Nye County, Nevada (J. T. Kartesz 1987) has not been verified by the author. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
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Key |
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Source | FNA vol. 17, p. 72. | FNA vol. 17, p. 67. | ||||||||||||
Parent taxa | Plantaginaceae > Collinsia | Plantaginaceae > Collinsia | ||||||||||||
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Name authority | Bentham: in A. P. de Candolle and A. L. P. P. de Candolle, Prodr. 10: 318. (1846) — (as bartsiaefolia) | Parish: Erythea 7: 96. (1899) | ||||||||||||
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