Definition of Collinsia verna

1. Noun. Eastern United States plant with whorls of blue-and-white flowers.

Exact synonyms: Blue-eyed Mary
Generic synonyms: Wild Flower, Wildflower
Group relationships: Collinsia, Genus Collinsia

Lexicographical Neighbors of Collinsia Verna

Collier's sign
Collier's tract
Collier's tucked lid sign
Collin
Colling
Collinge
Collings
Collins
Collinses
Collinsia
Collinsia bicolor
Collinsia heterophylla
Collinsia parviflora
Collinsia verna (current term)
Collinsian
Collinson
Collinsonia
Collinsonia canadensis
Collis
Collis-Belsey procedure
Collis Potter Huntington
Collison
Collocalia
Collocalia inexpectata
Collop Monday
Colls
Collyer
Collyns

Literary usage of Collinsia verna

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. An Illustrated Flora of the Northern United States, Canada and the British by Nathaniel Lord. Britton, Hon. Addison. Brown (1913)
"Type species : Collinsia verna Nutt. Corolla s"-8" long, the throat shorter ... Collinsia verna Nutt. Blue-eyed Mary. Innocence. Fig. 3771. 1. C. verna. 2. ..."

2. The British Flower Garden: Containing Coloured Figures and Descriptions of ...by Robert Sweet by Robert Sweet (1838)
"Collinsia verna. Nuttall loc. cit. p. \QO.pl. 9. Gen. amer. v, 2. p. 46. " Root fibrous, annual. Stem often simple, or branched towards the base, terete, ..."

3. A Practical Course in Botany: With Especial Reference to Its Bearings on by Eliza Frances Andrews (1911)
"Herbs, with mostly opposite leaves, and Collinsia verna, Blue-eyed small greenish-purple flowers in a loose terminal cluster. Corolla inflated, more or less ..."

4. List of Pteridophyta and Spermatophyta Growing Without Cultivation in by Botanical Club (1894)
"Collinsia verna Nutt. Journ. Acad. Phila. 1 : 190 (1817). 3343. Collinsia violacea Nutt. Trans. Am. Phil. Soc. (ll.) 5: 179 (1833-37). 7. ..."

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