Common name:
Purple toadflax
Family:
Scientific name:
Linaria purpurea
Main flower color:
Range:
Mostly in Wales and southern England; an introduced species
Height:
Up to 100 cm
Habitat:
Waste ground, old walls, rocky places
Flowers:
Elongated, relatively open clusters along the upper quarter of the stem. The purple flowers have a broad, tubular, veined corolla opening to two upwards-pointing lobes at the top and three spreading lobes below, angled downwards. The base of the lower lobes is raised, and hairy. A curved spur extends below the corolla
Leaves:
Narrow, linear, closely-spaced, up to 5 cm long
Season:
June to August
Rarity:
★★★★★
