Collinsia heterophyllaBuist ex Graham

Purple Chinese Houses

WFO wfo-0000614900 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC0 / CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h

Collinsia heterophylla, photographed by Millie Basden
fig. a Millie Basden, CC BY 4.0 / 2022-06-06 / obs. 204735381
Collinsia heterophylla, photographed by velodrome
fig. b velodrome, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 203425176
Collinsia heterophylla, photographed by Cricket Raspet
fig. c Cricket Raspet, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 196108969
Collinsia heterophylla, photographed by Chuck Wilson
fig. d Chuck Wilson, CC0 1.0 / obs. 204711160
Collinsia heterophylla, photographed by joergmlpts
fig. e joergmlpts, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 198974330
Collinsia heterophylla, photographed by joergmlpts
fig. f joergmlpts, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 194077645
Collinsia heterophylla, photographed by velodrome
fig. g velodrome, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 196116301
Collinsia heterophylla, photographed by velodrome
fig. h velodrome, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 196116140

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Flowering n = 1,788 observations

Peak flowering in Apr, from 1,788 community-annotated observations worldwide. This is a global aggregate, not a forecast for your garden: the same species flowers on different dates in different hemispheres, and citizen-science records cluster near cities, at weekends, and in spring. Where a species has fewer than 30 annotated records we do not draw this chart at all.

Also published as 10 synonyms

A synonym is not an error. It is a record of botanists disagreeing, in print, about where this plant belongs. Each of these was somebody’s considered answer.

  • Collinsia austromontana (Newsom) Pennell
  • Collinsia bicolor Benth.
  • Collinsia bicolor unranked alba T.Moore
  • Collinsia bicolor unranked candidissima T.Moore
  • Collinsia bicolor var. atrorubens T.Moore
  • Collinsia bicolor var. austromontana Newsom
  • Collinsia bicolor var. marginata W.Melville ex J.Dix
  • Collinsia bicolor var. typica Newsom
  • Collinsia hernandezii Elmer
  • Herpestis bicolor Mill. & Muhl.

Sourcesevery claim on this page

  1. World Flora Online Plant List. accepted name, authority, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
  2. iNaturalist. photographs and flowering annotations, CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA only. per photograph. Retrieved 2026-06-27.

We publish what we can source and we say so when we cannot. This page has no care advice, no toxicity claim and no native range, because we do not yet have those from a source we can cite.