Spermatophytes (seed plants): Angiosperms (flowering plants): Eudicots: Core Eudicots: Asterids: Lamiids: Lamiales
WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/24/22):
Linaria vulgaris
FAMILY
Plantaginaceae
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SYNONYMOUS WITH
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Linaria vulgaris
FAMILY
Scrophulariaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH Floristic Synthesis of North America. BONAP (Kartesz, 2021)
Linaria vulgaris
SYNONYMOUS WITH Flora of North America
Linaria vulgaris
SYNONYMOUS WITH VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 166-16-002:
Linaria vulgaris FAMILY Scrophulariaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Linaria linaria
COMMON NAME:
Butter-and-eggs, Yellow Toadflax, Wild-snapdragon
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Ben Geer Keys bgk842_55b
July
Flower has an orange "palate" that nearly closes the throat of the corolla, per Wildflowers of the Southern Mountains (Smith, 1998).
Ben Geer Keys bgk842_55c
July
Leaves numerous, narrow, distributed uniformly up to the inflorescence, per Wildflowers of Tennessee, the Ohio Valley, and the Southern Appalachians (Horn, Cathcart, Hemmerly, & Duhl, 2005).
Ben Geer Keys bgk842_a
July
1"-long yellow flowers with downward pointing spurs, crowded in a spike, per Wildflowers of the Southern Mountains (Smith, 1998).
WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/24/22):
Linaria vulgaris
FAMILY
Plantaginaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Linaria vulgaris
FAMILY
Scrophulariaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Floristic Synthesis of North America. BONAP (Kartesz, 2021)
Linaria vulgaris
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Flora of North America
Linaria vulgaris
SYNONYMOUS WITH
VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 166-16-002:
Linaria vulgaris
FAMILY
Scrophulariaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Linaria linaria
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