Collinsia bartsiifolia

Collinsia bartsiifolia is a species of flowering plant in the plantain family known by the common name white blue-eyed Mary.

Collinsia bartsiifolia
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Asterids
Order: Lamiales
Family: Plantaginaceae
Genus: Collinsia
Species:
C. bartsiifolia
Binomial name
Collinsia bartsiifolia

It is endemic to California, where it is widespread in the mountain ranges and deserts and found in several habitat types.

Description

Collinsia bartsiifolia is an annual herb producing a slender, hairy stem up to about 35 centimeters long. It is lined with a few thick, narrowly oblong leaves with edges slightly rolled under.

The inflorescence is an interrupted series of whorls of flowers. The flower is white to lavender to purple, sometimes bicolored, pouched and folded, with two toothed upper lobes and three notched lower lobes.

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