Flora of North America species comparison

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Collinsia verna

spring blue eyed Mary
Habit Annuals 10–30 cm.
Stems

erect to ascending.
Leaf

blades ovate to elliptic or lanceolate, base cuneate to subcordate, margins shallowly and coarsely serrate.
Inflorescences

± glandular, scaly-hairy;

nodes 1–6(–8)-flowered;

flowers not crowded proximally, often crowded distally;

distalmost bracts linear, 5–6(+) mm.
Pedicels

ascending to reflexed, usually longer than calyx, visible, glandular abaxially, glabrate adaxially.
Flowers

calyx lobes deltate, surpassing capsule, apex acute to acuminate;

corolla blue, banner white to pale lilac, base yellow with small maroon spots, wings and keel bluish, 8–15 mm, keel sparsely glandular;

banner length (0.7–)0.8–1 times wings, lobe base without folds;

wings widely obovate, notched less than 0.1 times whole length;

throat angled to tube, longer than diam., pouch arched, slightly expanded;

stamens: abaxial filaments glabrous or sparsely hairy at base, adaxials hairy, basal spur 0.
Capsules

without red blotches.
Seeds

2–4, oblong to oval, 2–3 mm, margins thickened, inrolled.
2n

= 14.

Collinsia verna
Phenology Flowering Apr–Jun.
Habitat Moist woodlands.
Elevation 80–1000 m. (300–3300 ft.)
Distribution
from FNA
AR; IA; IL; IN; KS; KY; MI; MO; NY; OH; OK; PA; TN; TX; VA; WI; WV; ON
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Source FNA vol. 17, p. 65.
Parent taxa 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. parryi, C. parviflora, C. rattanii, C. sparsiflora, C. tinctoria, C. torreyi, C. violacea, C. wrightii
Synonyms C. bicolor
Name authority Nuttall: J. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia 1: 190, plate 9. (1817)
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