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10th July 2014, Blackburn Rly Stn, Lancs. | Photo: © RWD |
Living in Blackburn is enough to drive you up the wall... |
Photo: © RWD |
All making their escape upwards and over the great wall. |
31st Aug 2010, near Portland Basin, Ashton canal, M/cr. | Photo: © RWD |
Somewhat straggly and untidy with a mass of narrow leaves. |
21st Aug 2010, near Portland Basin, Ashton canal, M/cr. | Photo: © RWD |
Up to 80cm tall, with a few long and narrow leaves all along the stem, with pale coloured toad-flax shaped flowers near the top. |
21st Aug 2010, near Portland Basin, Ashton canal, M/cr. | Photo: © RWD |
Likes walls, dry bare ground, grassy or waste places. |
31st Aug 2010, near Portland Basin, Ashton canal, M/cr. | Photo: © RWD |
Viewed from above. |
21st Aug 2010, near Portland Basin, Ashton canal, M/cr. | Photo: © RWD |
Flowers have three white, rounded, lower lobes and two rounded upright lilac upper lobes with purple veins. There is a central nick that it has a splash of egg-yolk yellow. |
5th Sept 2011, near Portland Basin, Ashton canal, M/cr. | Photo: © RWD |
Flowers congregate at top. |
21st Aug 2010, near Portland Basin, Ashton canal, M/cr. | Photo: © RWD |
A dull-coloured spur largely hidden descends a short distance behind the flower. |
17th July 2015, a wall, Glenridding, Cumbria. | Photo: © RWD |
The yolky centre has a few hairs. |
31st Aug 2010, near Portland Basin, Ashton canal, M/cr. | Photo: © RWD |
The spur on the flower is very short in comparison to that of Common Toadflax and whitish-green. |
17th July 2015, a wall, Glenridding, Cumbria. | Photo: © RWD |
Wearing pin-stripe suits. The yellow is on the inside of the 'tube', the purple stripes on the outside. Note the claw-like sepals. |
17th July 2015, a wall, Glenridding, Cumbria. | Photo: © RWD |
Claw-like sepals. |
17th July 2015, a wall, Glenridding, Cumbria. | Photo: © RWD |
Flowers at various stages the process of growing and opening at the summit. |
21st Aug 2010, near Portland Basin, Ashton canal, M/cr. | Photo: © RWD |
Narrow lanceolate leaves very like those of Purple Toadflax, but perhaps not as prolific |
21st Aug 2010, near Portland Basin, Ashton canal, M/cr. | Photo: © RWD |
Leaves are in whorls of 2 to 5 up the stem, progressing irregularly from five near the base to two nearer the top. |
21st Aug 2010, near Portland Basin, Ashton canal, M/cr. | Photo: © RWD |
Fruits are irregular containing four? seeds. Stem round, as shown by broken stem. |
No relation to : Flaxes such as Cultivated Flax (Linum usitatissimum) [plants with similar names belonging to differing families].
Hybridizes with : Purple Toadflax, (Linaria purpurea) to produce
Some similarities to : other The flowers of toadflaxes are said to resemble a toads mouth, hence the name. because toadflaxes are mildly poisonous to livestock, these are regarded as toxic weeds. [However, your author has been un-successful at finding the identity of any poisonous substances within them apart from 'mildly poisonous glycosides']. In America Linaria species are invasive species.
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