Euphrasia collina is a perennial herb or subshrub in the genus Euphrasia. Plants grow between high and have leaves with 1 to 6 teeth per side. The flowers may be white, blue, pink or purple, sometimes blotched with yellow on the lower petal.
It occurs in South Australia, Victoria, Tasmania and New South Wales, and it has a wide variety of habitats including woodland, heath and grasslands, from coastal to alpine areas.
Taxonomy The species was first formerly described by botanist Robert Brown in Prodromus Florae Novae Hollandiae in 1810. There are a number of subspecies currently recognised:
Euphrasia collina R.Br. subsp. collina Euphrasia collina subsp. diemenica (Spreng.) W.R.Barker Euphrasia collina subsp. diversicolor W.R.Barker Euphrasia collina subsp. glacialis (Wettst.) W.R.Barker Euphrasia collina subsp. gunnii (Du Rietz) W.R.Barker Euphrasia collina subsp. lapidosa W.R.Barker Euphrasia collina subsp. muelleri (Wettst.) W.R.Barker Euphrasia collina subsp. nandewarensis W.R.Barker Euphrasia collina subsp. osbornii W.R.Barker Euphrasia collina subsp. paludosa (R.Br.) W.R.Barker Euphrasia collina subsp. speciosa (R.Br.) W.R.Barker Euphrasia collina subsp. tetragona (R.Br.) W.R.Barker Euphrasia collina subsp. trichocalycina (Gand.) W.R.Barker
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