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Collinsia childii
Child's blue-eyed Mary is a small annual wildflower native to California and Baja California, found in woodland and shady forest edges. It is grown as a native wildflower and is best sown directly where it is to grow in cool, moist conditions.
Collinsia childii is a species of flowering plant in the plantain family known by the common name Child's blue-eyed Mary.
It is endemic to California, where it grows in the mountains of the Sierra Nevada and the Southern Inner and Outer California Coast Range. It grows in woodland and shady forest habitats.
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Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Collinsia childii by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts and the care summary drawn from them are shared under the same licence.
The care summary was written by AI (Claude, Anthropic) from the sources on this page, with general growing knowledge where they are silent. Check before relying on it.
Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.
