{{Short description|Species of flowering plant}} {{Speciesbox |image = Collinsia linearis flowers.jpg |genus = Collinsia |species = linearis |authority = A.Gray }}

'''''Collinsia linearis''''' is a species of flowering plant in the plantain family known by the common name '''narrowleaf blue-eyed Mary'''.<ref name=":0">{{Cite web |title=Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center - The University of Texas at Austin |url=https://www.wildflower.org/plants/result.php?id_plant=COLI |access-date=2026-02-19 |website=www.wildflower.org}}</ref>

It is native to the coniferous forests of the Klamath Mountains in northern California and southern Oregon sometimes on serpentine soils.<ref>{{Cite web |title=NatureServe Explorer 2.0 |url=https://explorer.natureserve.org/Taxon/ELEMENT_GLOBAL.2.156388/Collinsia_linearis |access-date=2026-02-19 |website=explorer.natureserve.org}}</ref> It has also been seen in the Sierra Nevada.

==Description== ''Collinsia linearis'' is an annual herb growing up to {{Convert|16|in|cm|abbr=off}} tall.<ref name=":0" />

The inflorescence is a series of nodes, each bearing 1 to 5 flowers. Each flower arises on a pedicel coated in glandular hairs. The corolla of the flower angles sharply from the calyx of sepals. It is white to purple-tinted to deep purple-blue, and sometimes bicolored. There are two upper lobes and three lower lobes, the middle lower lobe forming a pouch. Its chromosome number is n=7.<ref name=":1">{{Cite web |title=Collinsia linearis |url=https://ucjeps.berkeley.edu/eflora/eflora_display.php?tid=19996 |access-date=2026-02-22 |website=ucjeps.berkeley.edu}}</ref>

''Collinsia linearis'' grows in open coniferous forests at elevations ranging from {{Convert|200 - 2000|m|ft|abbr=on}}.<ref name=":1" />

== References == {{reflist}}

==External links== {{Commons category}} *[http://ucjeps.berkeley.edu/cgi-bin/get_JM_treatment.pl?7177,7269,7280 Jepson Manual Treatment of ''Collinsia linearis''] *[http://calphotos.berkeley.edu/cgi/img_query?query_src=photos_index&where-taxon=Collinsia+linearis ''Collinsia linearis'' — U.C. Photo gallery]

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linearis Category:Flora of California Category:Flora of Oregon Category:Flora of the Klamath Mountains Category:Flora of the Sierra Nevada (United States) Category:Plants described in 1880 Category:Flora without expected TNC conservation status

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