Collinsia sparsiflora

Few flowered collinsia

Family: Plantaginaceae · Type: annual · Native

Few flowered collinsia is a California native annual found in coastal and central California mountain regions in open woodland and grassland habitats at lower elevations. Flowering from March to May, this plant produces delicate lavender to purple flowers with white undertones, each blossom featuring a distinctive lowest petal with sparse long hairs near its tip. Growing with slender stems 10 to 40 centimeters tall, it develops an open, loosely branched structure with thin, elongated stems. Its leaves are generally linear to oblong, arranged in a simple entire configuration that provides a delicate backdrop to the flower clusters. The fruits are spherical with intriguing red-blotched tops, revealing themselves as the calyx lobes spread widely.

California counties: Contra Costa, El Dorado, Stanislaus, Lake, Amador, Santa Clara, Colusa, Sonoma, Yolo, Napa, Solano, Butte, Mendocino, Humboldt, Placer, San Joaquin, Glenn, San Benito, Santa Barbara, Monterey, San Luis Obispo, San Bernardino, Sutter, Shasta, Tehama, San Mateo, Trinity, Fresno, Tulare, Lassen, Calaveras, San Francisco, Merced, Nevada, Mariposa, Tuolumne, Mono, Marin, Yuba

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