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COLLINSIA
(Blue-eyed-mary) (Innocence)
(Named
for Zaccheus Collins, a Philadelphia botanist)
The visitor
to the woods knows the Blue-eyed-mary, Collinsia verna,
one of the daintiest of annual wild flowers. Gene Stratton
Porter also loved it, she writes:
When winter's chill has scarce left earth
And April winds blow "Hey down derry !"
Comes gaily dancing down my hill
Sweet, laughing, Blue-eyed-mary.
She wears a dress of bronzy green
Draped round her light and airy;
She lifts the loveliest face I've seen
Brave, tender, Blue-eyed-mary.
Her eyes shine like the azure sky,
Her step light as a fairy;
Her face, no crystal drift so white,
Dear, steadfast, Blue-eyed-wary.
My hat is off to Bouncing Bet,
Gill-over-the-ground runs quite contrary,
Black-eyed-Susan is my pet,
But I'm in love with Blue-eyed-wary.
It grows
in moist meadows and blooms at the time of the Tulips.
The lower lip is a bright blue, the upper is white,
often purple.
Collinsia
bicolor is a California annual that has found its way
into European catalogs. In this species the lower lip
is rose or violet in color and the upper white. The
flowers are produced in whorls. The stems are somewhat
hairy and often sticky.
C. grandiflora
is similar to C. verna, but quite branchy, the flowers
being on stems no longer than the flower itself.
UTILIZE.
These annuals should be grown in large masses in woody
meadows. The seeds self-sow and coming up in October,
they will bloom in April among Tulips.
GENERAL.
Being hardy annuals they may be sown as early in Spring
as desired.
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