Collinsia parviflora
I love this little annual native plant. To get a sense of scale, this is about two inches tall. Blue-eyed Mary was spread around my property when I started, and my efforts to eliminate invasive non-native plants impacted it--the dreaded "Storksbill" (Erodium cicutarium) blooms about this same time. But, like the Midget phlox (Phlox gracilis) that is not yet blooming there behind it (the shiny green leaves), a friend gave me these cool little mesh bags, and I have captured seeds every year, and have been returning it to its former haunts, as here. It spreads like a blanket, once it gets happy, and it makes me happy to see it doing well every place I've reintroduced it.
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