Common name: Purple Toadflax
Scientific name: Linaria purpurea 不列顛柳穿魚、紫花柳穿魚
Genus: Linaria 柳穿魚屬*
Family: Plantaginaceae 車前草科, plantain family
Remarks*: It is formerly placed in Scrophulariaceae 玄參科, figwort family.
Origin: Neophyte (established after 1500 AD). A native of central and southern Italy and Sicily. It was introduced into cultivation by 1599 and was known from the wild by 1834.
Date: 31st May
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14 An erect, branched, glabrous grey-green perennial, can reach up to 90 cm. Flowers in terminal racemes.
12 Leaves linear-lanceolate, to 4.5 cn.
03 Flowers in a raceme.
07 Flower buds.
11 Flowers purple, to 8mm, spur curved, more than half as long as corolla.
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