{{Short description|Species of flowering plant}} {{Speciesbox | image = Collinsia concolor.jpg | genus = Collinsia | species = concolor | authority = Greene }}
'''''Collinsia concolor''''' is a species of flowering plant in the plantain family known by the common name '''Chinese houses'''.
It is native to Southern California and Baja California. It grows in the woodlands and chaparral of the coastal mountain ranges, such as the Peninsular Ranges. Collinsia concolor is a host species for the Edith's checkerspot butterfly.<ref>{{cite web |title=Quino Checkerspot Butterfly: Euphydryas editha quino |url=https://www.fws.gov/story/quino-checkerspot-butterfly |website=U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service |publisher=U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service}}</ref>
==Description== ''Collinsia concolor'' is an annual herb producing an erect stem up to about 45 centimeters tall. The leaves are oppositely arranged, each widely linear in shape, flat, and sometimes slightly toothed.
The hairy gland-covered inflorescence is an interrupted series of dense whorls of flowers. Each flower is 1 to 1.5 centimeters long, with a hairy base and a corolla divided into two upper lobes and three lower. The flower is blue to purple with a neatly purple-dotted white area on the upper lobes. The middle of the three lower lobes has a hairy tip.
==References== {{Reflist}}
==External links== *[http://ucjeps.berkeley.edu/cgi-bin/get_JM_treatment.pl?7177,7269,7275 Jepson Manual Treatment of ''Collinsia concolor''] *[https://plants.usda.gov/java/profile?symbol=COCO USDA Plants Profile] *[http://calphotos.berkeley.edu/cgi/img_query?query_src=photos_index&where-taxon=Collinsia+concolor ''Collinsia concolor'' — U.C. Photo gallery]
{{Taxonbar|from=Q5147427}}
concolor Category:Flora of Baja California Category:Flora of California Category:Natural history of the California chaparral and woodlands Category:Natural history of the Peninsular Ranges Category:Natural history of the Transverse Ranges Category:Plants described in 1895 Category:Flora without expected TNC conservation status
{{Plantaginaceae-stub}}