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WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/24/22):
Collinsia verna
FAMILY
Plantaginaceae
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Dig deeper at SERNEC, a consortium of southeastern herbaria.
SYNONYMOUS WITH
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Collinsia verna
FAMILY
Scrophulariaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH Flora of North America north of Mexico, vol. 17 (2019)
Collinsia verna
SYNONYMOUS WITH Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Collinsia verna
COMMON NAME:
Eastern Blue-eyed Mary
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WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/24/22):
Collinsia verna
FAMILY
Plantaginaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Collinsia verna
FAMILY
Scrophulariaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Flora of North America north of Mexico, vol. 17
Collinsia verna
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Collinsia verna
2798
Forb
Winter annual
Habitat: Nutrient-rich, moist bottomlands and forested slopes, per Weakley's Flora
Native: north of the Carolinas & Georgia
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LEAVES:
Simple
Opposite
Leaves sessile
FLOWER:
Spring/Summer
Blue & white
Bilaterally symmetrical
2-lipped 5-lobed corolla (apparently 4-lobed, but the 5th lobe is hidden)
4 stamens
Superior ovary
Bisexual
FRUIT:
Spring/Summer
Capsule
TO LEARN MORE about this plant, look it up in a good book!
- Gardening with the Native Plants of Tennessee (Hunter, 2002) p117
- Wildflowers of Tennessee, the Ohio Valley, and the Southern Appalachians (Horn, Cathcart, Hemmerly, & Duhl, 2005) p283
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