Collinsia heterophylla

Collinsia heterophylla
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
(unranked): Angiosperms
(unranked): Eudicots
(unranked): Asterids
Order: Lamiales
Family: Plantaginaceae
Genus: Collinsia
Species: C. heterophylla
Binomial name
Collinsia heterophylla
Buist ex Graham[1]

Collinsia heterophylla (syn. Collinsia bicolor), known as purple Chinese houses[2] or innocence, is a flowering plant native to California and the Peninsular Ranges in northern Baja California.[1]

Description

Collinsia heterophylla is an annual plant growing in shady places, 10–50 centimetres (4–20 in) in height. It can be found in most of California (other than desert regions) below about 1,000 metres (3,300 ft).

It blooms from mid spring to early summer. Like other species in the genus Collinsia, which also includes the blue-eyed Marys, it gets its name from its towers of inflorescences of decreasing diameter, which give the plants in full flower a certain resemblance to a pagoda.

Dried in air, the seeds weigh about 1 mg each.

Varieties

Taxonomy

The species was first described as Collinsia bicolor by George Bentham in 1835, but this name proved to be a later homonym of Collinsia bicolor Raf. (described in 1824), necessitating the name change to C. heterophylla. Despite this, the name C. bicolor is still sometimes used in references.[5]

See also

References

  1. 1 2 ITIS Standard Report Page: Collinsia heterophylla
  2. ↑ "Collinsia heterophylla". Natural Resources Conservation Service PLANTS Database. USDA. Retrieved 17 January 2016.
  3. ↑ USDA: Collinsia heterophylla var. austromontana
  4. ↑ USDA: Collinsia heterophylla var. heterophylla
  5. ↑ USDA: Classification (taxonomy)
Wikimedia Commons has media related to Collinsia heterophylla.


This article is issued from Wikipedia - version of the 3/8/2016. The text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution/Share Alike but additional terms may apply for the media files.