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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   Go to FSUS key



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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image of Linaria vulgaris, Butter-and-eggs, Yellow Toadflax, Wild-snapdragon

USDA / Selected Weeds of the US. 1970    swus_page_329

        

image of Linaria vulgaris, Butter-and-eggs, Yellow Toadflax, Wild-snapdragon

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).

image of Linaria vulgaris, Butter-and-eggs, Yellow Toadflax, Wild-snapdragon

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).

image of Linaria vulgaris, Butter-and-eggs, Yellow Toadflax, Wild-snapdragon

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).

image of Linaria vulgaris, Butter-and-eggs, Yellow Toadflax, Wild-snapdragon

Stephanie C. Brundage    scb_091219EClayCty10ed

September    Clay County    NC

image of Linaria vulgaris, Butter-and-eggs, Yellow Toadflax, Wild-snapdragon

Stephanie C. Brundage    scb_091219EClayCty11ed

September    Clay County    NC

 

 

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

 

Find by SCIENTIFIC NAME:

842

Forb
Perennial

Habitat: Fields, pastures, roadsides, disturbed areas, per Weakley's Flora

Non-native: Europe

Common in NC Mountains, uncommon in SC Mountains & NC Piedmont (rare elsewhere in GA-NC-SC)

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LEAVES:
Simple
Alternate, rarely basal leaves whorled

FLOWER:
Spring/Summer/Fall
Yellow
Bilaterally symmetrical
5-parted calyx
2-lipped corolla
4 included stamens (2 long, 2 short)
Superior ovary
Bisexual

Inflorescence a raceme

FRUIT:
Summer/Fall
Capsule

 

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