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Collinsia parryi

Collinsia tinctoria

Parry's blue-eyed Mary, Parry's collinsia

sticky Chinese houses, tincture plant
Habit Annuals 10–40 cm. Annuals 20–60 cm.
Stems

erect to ascending.

ascending.
Leaf

blades ± lanceolate, margins entire or crenate.

blades usually lanceolate-deltate, margins entire or serrate, abaxial surface densely hairy, adaxial glabrous or glabrate, usually strongly whitish-mottled.
Inflorescences

± eglandular;

nodes 1–3(–5)-flowered;

flowers not crowded;

distalmost bracts linear, 2–3 mm.

glandular;

whorls 2–8 on main axis, fewer on lateral branches;

nodes 3–10-flowered;

flowers crowded;

distalmost bracts linear, 5–6 mm.
Pedicels

ascending to spreading, usually longer than calyx, visible.

ascending to spreading, shorter than calyx, not or scarcely 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.

calyx lobes linear to lanceolate, surpassing capsule, apex subacute to rounded;

corolla white to yellowish or pale lavender, rarely purple, 12–20 mm, wings usually long-hairy on adaxial surface, keel glandular, hairy;

adaxial pouch projecting 2–4 mm from tube base;

banner length 0.4–0.5 times wings, lobe base without folds, reflexed portion 2–3.5 mm, equal to basal portion, red-banded;

wings usually red-dotted;

stamens: abaxial filaments glabrous, rarely hairy, adaxials hairy, basal spur 0 or 1.
Seeds

8–12, oblong, 1–1.5 mm, margins thickened, inrolled.

4–8, oval, flattened, 2–2.5 mm, margins thin, not inrolled.
2n

= 14.

= 14.

Collinsia parryi

Collinsia tinctoria
Phenology Flowering Apr–May(–Jun). Flowering May–Aug.
Habitat Open chaparral, sagebrush scrub, mixed woodlands. Rocky habitats, openings in dry mixed pine-oak woodlands or coniferous forests.
Elevation 500–1600 m. (1600–5200 ft.) 100–2500 m. (300–8200 ft.)
Distribution
from FNA
CA
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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.)

Collinsia tinctoria is often on scree slopes and in full sun. Most populations are on the western Sierra Nevada and the Cascade Ranges. There are a few populations in the southern North Coast Ranges (Sonoma County) and at Mount Diablo (Contra Costa County). The reduction of the banner and the rearward projection of the pouch beyond the calyx are two floral traits that distinguish it. The mottled leaves of C. tinctoria are unique in Collinsia.

(Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.)
Source FNA vol. 17, p. 67. FNA vol. 17, p. 73.
Parent taxa Plantaginaceae > Collinsia Plantaginaceae > Collinsia
Sibling taxa
C. antonina, C. bartsiifolia, C. callosa, C. childii, C. concolor, C. corymbosa, C. grandiflora, C. greenei, C. heterophylla, C. latifolia, C. linearis, C. multicolor, C. parviflora, C. rattanii, C. sparsiflora, C. tinctoria, C. torreyi, C. verna, C. violacea, C. wrightii
C. antonina, C. bartsiifolia, C. callosa, C. childii, C. concolor, C. corymbosa, C. grandiflora, C. greenei, C. heterophylla, C. latifolia, C. linearis, C. multicolor, C. parryi, C. parviflora, C. rattanii, C. sparsiflora, C. torreyi, C. verna, C. violacea, C. wrightii
Name authority A. Gray: in A. Gray et al., Syn. Fl. N. Amer. 2(1): 257. (1878) Hartweg e× Bentham: Pl. Hartw., 328. (1849)
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