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Sunday, January 28, 2018

Purple Chinese Houses, Collinsia heterophylla

Purple Chinese Houses, Collinsia heterophylla:



lives under oaks and other trees



"Collinsia heterophylla (syn. C. bicolor) is a flowering plant native to California and Baja California. It is known as Purple Chinese Houses or Innocence. Like the other species in the genus Collinsia, which also includes the Blue-eyed Marys, it gets its name from its towers of flower clusters, 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 meters. It blooms from mid spring to early summer. The plant is from 10-50 centimeter tall."



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