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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
Eastern Blue-eyed Mary
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
Eastern Blue-eyed Mary
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
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
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