Saturday, July 26, 2014

Common Flower Gems - Classification #4 Yellow Toadflax/Wild Snapdragon (Linaria vulgaris)

Its yellow, showy petals are quite a sight.

Today's common flower gem is the Perrenial Yellow Toadflax, known also as Wild Snapdragon because of its yellow and orange Snapdragon-like flowers. According to Wikepedia, it is a species of toadflax, native to most of Europe and northern Asia, from the United Kingdom south to Spain in the west, and east to eastern Siberia and western China. It has also been introduced and is now common in North America as you can see from these pictures below which were taken here in my local NY neighborhood.

I found these in the same empty lot as the amazing Bull Thistle wildflowers which I identify here.




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