Collomia grandiflora, Douglas ex Lindley

Tutin, T. G., Heywood, V. H., Burges, N. A., Moore, D. M., Valentine, D. H., Walters, S. M. & Webb, D. A., 1972, Flora Europaea. Volume 3. Diapensiacea to Myoporaceae, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press : 74

1. C. grandiflora Douglas ex Lindley , Bot. Reg. 14: sub t. 1166 (1828)

(C. coccinea auct., non Lehm.).

Stems 20-100 cm, glabrous, puberulent or glandular, leafy throughout. Leaves 3-5 cm, linear to lanceolate, sessile. Bracts ovate, leaf-like. Flowers subsessile. Calyx 7-10 mm; lobes lanceolate. Corolla 15-30 mm, yellow, becoming reddish, narrowly tubular, with more or less patent, lanceolate lobes. Capsule c. 5 mm. Cultivated fo r ornament and locally naturalized in damp places in W. & C. Europe. [Cz Ga Ge.] (California.) C. linearis Nutt. , Gen. N. Amer. Pl. 1: 126 (1818), with corolla with lilac limb and scarcely exceeding the calyx, from North America, is a frequent casual in Fennoscandia and may be confused with 1.