Purple Chinese houses

Collinsia heterophylla

''Collinsia heterophylla'' , known as purple Chinese houses or innocence, is a flowering plant native to California and the Peninsular Ranges in northern Baja California.
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Appearance

''Collinsia heterophylla'' is an annual plant growing in shady places, 10–50 centimetres in height. It can be found in most of California below about 1,000 metres .

It blooms from mid spring to early summer. Like other species in the genus ''Collinsia'', which also includes the blue-eyed Marys, it gets its name from its towers of inflorescences of decreasing diameter, which give the plants in full flower a certain resemblance to a pagoda.

Dried in air, the seeds weigh about 1 mg each.

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Taxonomy
KingdomPlantae
DivisionAngiosperms
ClassEudicots
OrderLamiales
FamilyPlantaginaceae
GenusCollinsia
SpeciesC. heterophylla