Collinsia is also a spider genus in the Linyphiidae family.

Collinsia is a genus of about 25 species of annual flowering plants, consisting of the Blue-eyed Marys and the Chinese Houses. It was traditionally placed in the snapdragon family Scrophulariaceae, but following recent research in molecular genetics, it has now been placed in a much enlarged family Plantaginaceae.

The genus is endemic to North America, and is named in honour of Zacchaeus Collins, a Philadelphia botanist of the late eighteenth/early nineteenth century. There are about 20 species, many of them found in California.

Two species, Collinsia parviflora and Collinsia violacea, the Smallflower Blue-eyed Mary and the Violet Blue-eyed Mary, had medicinal uses among American Indian peoples.

Species include:

• Collinsia antonina
  
• Collinsia bartsiifolia
  
• Collinsia callosa
  
• Collinsia childii
  
• Collinsia concolor
  
• Collinsia corymbosa
  
• Collinsia grandiflora
  
• Collinsia greenei
  
• Collinsia heterophylla
  
• Collinsia linearis
  
• Collinsia multicolor
  
• Collinsia parryi
  
• Collinsia parviflora
  
• Collinsia parvula
  
• Collinsia rattanii
  
• Collinsia sparsiflora
  
• Collinsia tinctoria
  
• Collinsia torreyi
  
• Collinsia verna
  
• Collinsia violacea

External links

• Jepson Manual Treatment
• USDA Plants Profile