Collinsia
- Collinsia is also a spider genus in the Linyphiidae family.
| Collinsia | |
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| (Collinsia heterophylla) | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| (unranked): | Angiosperms |
| (unranked): | Eudicots |
| (unranked): | Asterids |
| Order: | Lamiales |
| Family: | Plantaginaceae |
| Genus: | Collinsia Nutt. |
| Species | |
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About 20, see text | |
Collinsia is a genus of about 20 species of annual flowering plants, consisting of the Blue-eyed Marys and the Chinese Houses. It was traditionally placed in the snapdragon family Scrophulariaceae, but following recent research in molecular genetics, it has now been placed in a much enlarged family Plantaginaceae.
The genus is endemic to North America, and is named in honour of Zacchaeus Collins, a Philadelphia botanist of the late eighteenth/early nineteenth century. Of the 20 species, many of them found in California.
Two species, Collinsia parviflora and Collinsia violacea, the Smallflower Blue-eyed Mary and the Violet Blue-eyed Mary, had medicinal uses among American Indian peoples.
Species include:
- Collinsia antonina
- Collinsia bartsiifolia
- Collinsia callosa
- Collinsia childii
- Collinsia concolor
- Collinsia corymbosa
- Collinsia grandiflora
- Collinsia greenei
- Collinsia heterophylla
- Collinsia linearis
- Collinsia multicolor
- Collinsia parryi
- Collinsia parviflora
- Collinsia parvula
- Collinsia rattanii
- Collinsia sparsiflora
- Collinsia tinctoria
- Collinsia torreyi
- Collinsia verna
- Collinsia violacea