Torrey's blue-eyed Mary facts for kids
Quick facts for kids Torrey's blue-eyed Mary |
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Collinsia
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torreyi
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Collinsia torreyi, also known as Torrey's blue-eyed Mary, is a pretty flowering plant. It belongs to the plantain family. This plant is found in parts of North America.
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Discovering Torrey's Blue-Eyed Mary
This plant is a type of annual herb. This means it lives for only one year. It grows a thin, reddish stem. The stem can reach about 25 centimeters tall. That's about the length of a school ruler.
What Torrey's Blue-Eyed Mary Looks Like
The flowers grow in a group called an inflorescence. These flowers are on small stalks called pedicels. The whole flower cluster feels a bit sticky. This is because it has many small glands.
Each flower has a corolla, which is the colorful part. It is less than one centimeter long. The corolla has five parts, like petals. Two of these parts are white or light purple. The other three parts are a darker lavender or purple color.
Different Kinds of Torrey's Blue-Eyed Mary
There are a few different types, or varieties, of this plant. They are all slightly different but belong to the same species.
- C. t. var. brevicarinata - This type is found in the Sierra Nevada and San Gabriel Mountains in California.
- C. t. var. latifolia - You can find this variety in northern California and southern Oregon.
- C. t. var. torreyi - This type grows in California and western Nevada.
- C. t. var. wrightii (also called Collinsia wrightii) - This variety is only found in California and western Nevada.
Where Torrey's Blue-Eyed Mary Lives
This plant grows naturally in California. You can also find it in nearby parts of Oregon and Nevada. This plant likes to live in mountain forests. These are coniferous forests with many cone-bearing trees. It grows in mountain ranges like the Sierra Nevada.
