NameThatPlant.net: Collinsia verna

Spermatophytes (seed plants): Angiosperms (flowering plants): Eudicots: Core Eudicots: Asterids: Lamiids: Lamiales

WEAKLEY'S FLORA (5/21/15):
Collinsia verna FAMILY Plantaginaceae NEW! Click to go to FSUS key

Dig deeper at SERNEC, a consortium of southeastern herbaria.

SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Collinsia verna FAMILY Scrophulariaceae

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 (5/21/15):
Collinsia verna FAMILY Plantaginaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Collinsia verna FAMILY Scrophulariaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Collinsia verna

2798

Forb
Winter annual

Native: north of the Carolinas & Georgia

Habitat: Nutrient-rich, moist bottomlands and forested slopes, per Weakley's Flora

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LEAVES:
Simple
Opposite
Leaves sessile

FLOWER:
Spring/Summer
Blue & white
Bisexual
Bilaterally symmetrical
2-lipped 5-lobed corolla (apparently 4-lobed, but the 5th lobe is hidden)
4 stamens
Superior ovary

FRUIT:
Spring/Summer
Capsule

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