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Collinsia is also a spider genus in the Linyphiidae
Linyphiidae

Linyphiidae is a family of spiders, including more than 4,300 described species in 578 genus worldwide. This makes Linyphiidae the second largest family of spiders after the Salticidae....
 family.


Collinsia is a genus
Genus

A genus is a low-level taxonomic rank used in the classification of living and fossil organisms. The taxonomic ranks are domain , kingdom , phylum, class , order , family , genus, and species....
 of about 25 species of annual
Annual plant

An annual plant is a plant that usually germinates flowers and dies in one year. True annuals will only live longer than a year if they are prevented from setting seed....
 flowering plant
Flowering plant

The flowering plants or angiosperms are the most widespread group of Embryophytes. The flowering plants and the gymnosperms are the only extant groups of Spermatophyte....
s, consisting of the Blue-eyed Marys and the Chinese Houses. It was traditionally placed in the snapdragon family
Family (biology)

In biological classification, family is a taxonomic rank. Exact details of formal nomenclature depend on the Nomenclature Codes which applies....
 Scrophulariaceae
Scrophulariaceae

Scrophulariaceae, the figwort family, is a family of flowering plants. The plants are annual or perennial herbs with zygomorphic flowers....
, but following recent research in molecular genetics
Molecular genetics

Molecular genetics is the field of biology which studies the structure and function of genes at a Molecule level. The field studies how the genes are transferred from generation to generation....
, it has now been placed in a much enlarged family Plantaginaceae
Plantaginaceae

The Plantaginaceae Juss. or plantain family, is a family of flowering plants in the order Lamiales. The type genus is Plantago Carolus Linnaeus....
.

The genus is endemic to North America
North America

North America is the northern continent of the Americas, situated in the Earth's northern hemisphere and almost totally in the western hemisphere....
, and is named in honour of Zacchaeus Collins, a Philadelphia botanist
Botany

Botany, plant science, phytology, or plant biology is a branch of biology and is the Scientific method of plant life and development....
 of the late eighteenth/early nineteenth century.






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Collinsia is also a spider genus in the Linyphiidae
Linyphiidae

Linyphiidae is a family of spiders, including more than 4,300 described species in 578 genus worldwide. This makes Linyphiidae the second largest family of spiders after the Salticidae....
 family.


Collinsia is a genus
Genus

A genus is a low-level taxonomic rank used in the classification of living and fossil organisms. The taxonomic ranks are domain , kingdom , phylum, class , order , family , genus, and species....
 of about 25 species of annual
Annual plant

An annual plant is a plant that usually germinates flowers and dies in one year. True annuals will only live longer than a year if they are prevented from setting seed....
 flowering plant
Flowering plant

The flowering plants or angiosperms are the most widespread group of Embryophytes. The flowering plants and the gymnosperms are the only extant groups of Spermatophyte....
s, consisting of the Blue-eyed Marys and the Chinese Houses. It was traditionally placed in the snapdragon family
Family (biology)

In biological classification, family is a taxonomic rank. Exact details of formal nomenclature depend on the Nomenclature Codes which applies....
 Scrophulariaceae
Scrophulariaceae

Scrophulariaceae, the figwort family, is a family of flowering plants. The plants are annual or perennial herbs with zygomorphic flowers....
, but following recent research in molecular genetics
Molecular genetics

Molecular genetics is the field of biology which studies the structure and function of genes at a Molecule level. The field studies how the genes are transferred from generation to generation....
, it has now been placed in a much enlarged family Plantaginaceae
Plantaginaceae

The Plantaginaceae Juss. or plantain family, is a family of flowering plants in the order Lamiales. The type genus is Plantago Carolus Linnaeus....
.

The genus is endemic to North America
North America

North America is the northern continent of the Americas, situated in the Earth's northern hemisphere and almost totally in the western hemisphere....
, and is named in honour of Zacchaeus Collins, a Philadelphia botanist
Botany

Botany, plant science, phytology, or plant biology is a branch of biology and is the Scientific method of plant life and development....
 of the late eighteenth/early nineteenth century. There are about 20 species
Species

In biology, a species is one of the basic units of biological classification and a taxonomic rank. A species is often defined as a group of organisms capable of interbreeding and producing fertile offspring....
, many of them found in California
California

California is a U.S. state on the West Coast of the United States of the United States, along the Pacific Ocean. It is bordered by Oregon to the north, Nevada to the east, Arizona to the southeast, and to the south the Mexico state of Baja California....
.

Two species, Collinsia parviflora and Collinsia violacea, the Smallflower Blue-eyed Mary
Collinsia parviflora

Collinsia parviflora is a species of flowering plant in the Plantaginaceae known by the common names maiden blue eyed Mary and small-flowered collinsia....
 and the Violet Blue-eyed Mary, had medicinal uses among American Indian peoples.

Species include:
  • Collinsia antonina
  • Collinsia bartsiifolia
  • Collinsia callosa
  • Collinsia childii
  • Collinsia concolor
  • Collinsia corymbosa
  • Collinsia grandiflora
    Collinsia grandiflora

    Collinsia grandiflora is a species of flowering plant in the Plantaginaceae known by the common names giant blue eyed Mary and large-flowered collinsia....
  • Collinsia greenei
  • Collinsia heterophylla
    Collinsia heterophylla

    Collinsia heterophylla is a flowering plant native to California and Baja California. It is known as Purple Chinese Houses or Innocence....
  • Collinsia linearis
  • Collinsia multicolor
  • Collinsia parryi
    Collinsia parryi

    Collinsia parryi is a species of flowering plant in the Plantaginaceae known by the common name Parry's blue-eyed Mary. It is Endemism to central California, where it is found in the southern California Coast Ranges and the Transverse Ranges north and east of Los Angeles, California....
  • Collinsia parviflora
    Collinsia parviflora

    Collinsia parviflora is a species of flowering plant in the Plantaginaceae known by the common names maiden blue eyed Mary and small-flowered collinsia....
  • Collinsia parvula
  • Collinsia rattanii
  • Collinsia sparsiflora
  • Collinsia tinctoria
  • Collinsia torreyi
  • Collinsia verna
  • Collinsia violacea


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