San Juan Loop Trail, Cleveland National Forest, Riverside Co., CA. 4-12-09. © Joan Avise

Collinsia parryi

Parry's Blue-eyed Mary

Scarce on rocky slopes or grassy openings of burned chaparral, in Orange County known only from Hot Springs Canyon in the Santa Ana Mountains. It is also rare in burned areas in the Santa Monica Mtns, and it is found in mountain ranges (Transverse, Santa Anas, San Jacinto, San Bernardino, also Mojave Desert).

An annual, up to 2 ft. tall, minutely hairy. The downy calyx is 5-cleft; corolla, 4-10 mm. is violet blue. 

Plantaginaceae

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Flowers mainly single on 0.5- 1.5 in stems subtended by leafy bracts; opposite lanceolate leaves. San Juan Loop Trail, Cleveland National Forest, Riverside Co., CA. 4-12-09. © Joan Avise

Corolla about 3/8 in. San Juan Loop Trail, Cleveland National Forest, Riverside Co., CA. 4-12-09. © Joan Avise

San Juan Loop Trail, Cleveland National Forest, Riverside Co., CA. 4-14-12. © Ron Vanderhoff.

San Juan Loop Trail, Cleveland National Forest, Riverside Co., CA. 4-14-12. © Ron Vanderhoff.


San Juan Loop Trail, Cleveland National Forest, Riverside Co., CA. 4-14-12. © Ron Vanderhoff.


San Juan Loop Trail, Cleveland National Forest, Riverside Co., CA. 4-14-12. © Ron Vanderhoff.