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Collinsia

Collinsia
Purple Chinese Houses Collinsia heterophylla
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae Division: Magnoliophyta Class: Magnoliopsida Order: Scrophulariales Family: Scrophulariaceae Genus: Collinsia
Species
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

Collinsia is a genus of annual flowering plants in the snapdragon family Scrophulariaceae, consisting of the Blue-eyed Marys and the Chinese Houses.

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. There are about 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.