Collinsia parryi |
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Parry's blue-eyed Mary, Parry's collinsia |
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Habit | Annuals 10–40 cm. |
Stems | erect to ascending. |
Leaf | blades ± lanceolate, margins entire or crenate. |
Inflorescences | ± eglandular; nodes 1–3(–5)-flowered; flowers not crowded; distalmost bracts linear, 2–3 mm. |
Pedicels | ascending to spreading, usually longer than calyx, visible. |
Flowers | calyx lobes ovate, equal to capsule, apex obtuse to subacute or obscurely rounded; corolla blue-violet to lavender, rarely white, 4–10 mm, glabrous; banner length 1 times wings, lobe base without folds; stamens: abaxial filaments glabrous, adaxials sparsely spreading-hairy, basal spur 0. |
Seeds | 8–12, oblong, 1–1.5 mm, margins thickened, inrolled. |
2n | = 14. |
Collinsia parryi |
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Phenology | Flowering Apr–May(–Jun). |
Habitat | Open chaparral, sagebrush scrub, mixed woodlands. |
Elevation | 500–1600 m. (1600–5200 ft.) |
Distribution |
CA
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Discussion | Collinsia parryi is most closely related to C. concolor, which has larger flowers arranged in tiers of whorls; their ranges are largely allopatric. Collinsia parryi occurs most commonly on the drier, leeward sides of the Peninsular and Transverse ranges. B. G. Baldwin et al. (2011) sampled chloroplast DNA, ribosomal DNA, and introns of nuclear-coding DNA and showed that many individuals of C. parryi had zero sequence-divergence from C. concolor. This result suggests a recent diversification of these taxa from an ancestor that was most like C. concolor. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
Source | FNA vol. 17, p. 67. |
Parent taxa | Plantaginaceae > Collinsia |
Sibling taxa | |
Name authority | A. Gray: in A. Gray et al., Syn. Fl. N. Amer. 2(1): 257. (1878) |
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