collinsia | (n) genus of hardy annual herbs of western United States, Syn. genus Collinsia |
blue-eyed mary | (n) eastern United States plant with whorls of blue-and-white flowers, Syn. Collinsia verna |
maiden blue-eyed mary | (n) small widely branching western plant with tiny blue-and-white flowers; British Columbia to Ontario and south to California and Colorado, Syn. Collinsia parviflora |
purple chinese houses | (n) white and lavender to pale-blue flowers grow in perfect rings of widely spaced bands around the stems forming a kind of pagoda; California, Syn. Collinsia bicolor, Collinsia heterophylla, innocense |