Chinese Houses
Collinsia heterophylla
Chinese houses is a California annual whose tiered whorls of bicolored white-and-purple flowers stack like a pagoda, a charming, easy reseeder for the dappled light of woodland edges.
- Family
- Plantaginaceae
- Type
- wildflower
- Lifespan
- annual
- Height
- 0.5–2 ft
- Spacing
- 0.5–1 ft apart
- Light
- part shade
- Soil moisture
- dry, moist
- Soil pH
- neutral
- Bloom
- March, April, May, June
- Bloom colors
- white, pink, purple
- Wildlife value
- pollinators, butterflies
- Landscape uses
- border, container
- Native states
- CA