Purple Chinese Houses
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| Missing image ChineseHouses.jpg Collinsia heterophylla Purple Chinese Houses (Collinsia heterophylla) | ||||||||||||||
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Purple Chinese Houses, Collinsia heterophylla, is an unusual wildflower native to California and Baja California. It is also known as Innocence. Like the other Chinese Houses 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.
Purple Chinese Houses is an annual plant growing in shady places, and can be found in most of California, other than desert regions, below about 1000 metres. It blooms from March to June. The plant is from 10 to 50 cm tall.
Dried in air, the seeds weigh about 1 mg each.
External links
- Species treatment from the Jepson Manual (http://ucjeps.berkeley.edu/cgi-bin/get_JM_treatment.pl?Collinsia+heterophylla)
- Photographs from the CalPhotos archive (http://elib.cs.berkeley.edu/cgi/img_query?where-lifeform=any&rel-taxon=contains&where-taxon=Collinsia+heterophylla&rel-namesoup=contains&where-namesoup=&rel-location=like&where-location=&rel-county=eq&where-county=any&rel-state=eq&where-state=any&rel-country=eq&where-country=any&where-collectn=any&rel-photographer=eq&where-photographer=any&rel-kwid=equals&where-kwid=)Template:Plant-stub