Irish wildflowers BSBI map

Common Toadflax, Linaria vulgaris, Buaflíon
Photographs: Kinsale, Co. Cork

Common Toadflax
Linaria vulgaris
Buaflíon
Family: Scrophulariaceae

Flowering: July-October. Perennial. Possibly introduced.

Tall spikes of spurred yellow flowers with dark yellow or orange markings on the lip and a long spur. The leaves are linear or narrow-elliptical, lower leaves in a whorl, upper leaves alternate. Lower parts of the plant are hairless but the inflorescence is often sticky-hairy. There are many erect branched stems, and it spreads by creeping rhizomes. Height 25-75cm.

Occasional, mainly found in south, south-east and north-east Ireland on waste ground, grassland and roadsides.

Common Toadflax, Linaria vulgaris, Buaflíon

Common Toadflax, Linaria vulgaris, Buaflíon
Common Toadflax, Linaria vulgaris, Buaflíon

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