Collinsia greenei
Collinsia concolor
Greene's blue-eyed Mary, Greene's collinsia
Chinese-houses, white collinsia
erect to ascending.
erect to ascending.
blades narrowly lanceolate to ovate or oblanceolate, margins entire or serrate.
blades narrowly oblong to widely lanceolate, margins entire, rarely serrate.
glandular;
nodes 1–5-flowered;
flowers crowded or not;
distalmost bracts linear, 2–3 mm.
finely hairy to shaggy, usually finely glandular;
whorls 2–5 on main axis, fewer on lateral branches;
nodes (2 or)3–7-flowered;
flowers crowded;
distalmost bracts linear, 5–6 mm.
ascending to spreading, proximalmost sometimes longer than calyx, distalmost equal to or shorter than calyx, visible or not.
ascending to spreading, shorter than calyx, not or scarcely visible.
calyx lobes lanceolate to ovate, surpassing capsule, apex subacute to rounded;
corolla ± uniformly dark purple, rarely pale pinkish purple, 10–15 mm, sparsely glandular;
banner length 0.5 times wings, base with 2-crested, crescent-shaped folds extending 1–1.5 mm from throat opening;
stamens: filaments glabrous, adaxials sometimes hairy, basal spur 0.
calyx lobes oblong to lanceolate, surpassing capsule, apex subacute to acute;
corolla tinged bluish, distally violet to magenta, banner purple-dotted near base, 11–15 mm, banner usually sparsely hairy, keel usually sparsely hairy at tip;
banner length 0.7–0.9 times wings, lobe base without folds, tube longer than diam., hairy inside, lobes obovate, notched;
stamens: abaxial filaments glabrous, rarely hairy, adaxials hairy, basal spur 0(or 1).
2–4, oval, 2–3 mm, margins thin, not inrolled.
8–16, round to oval, flattened, 1.5–2 mm, margins slightly thickened, inrolled.
= 14.
= 14.
Collinsia greenei
Collinsia concolor
Collinsia greenei occurs on ophiolites, most frequently on soil derived from serpentinite and similarly altered ultramafic rock. Within its range, only C. rattanii occurs on these substrates; C. latifolia, C. parviflora, and C. wrightii are not on highly mafic soil.
The dark, nearly uniformly purple corollas of Collinsia greenei are distinctive, and the crescent-shaped flap of tissue on the adaxial lobes is unique. Other taxa have folds that bulge outward but are neither doubly crested nor crescent-shaped.
(Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.)
Collinsia concolor grows in dry habitats of the Peninsular Ranges. Flowers in tiers of dense whorls with bluish-tinged (or blue-blotched) corollas, a triangular region of purple spots in the adaxial lip, and lack of curved appendages at the bases of the filaments are unique to it. It is frequently confused with C. heterophylla because of morphological similarity and range overlap.
(Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.)
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