Home Weed ID Publications Dictionary Links FAQs Login About us		Plant Description: Name: common toadflax Scientific Name: Linaria canadensis Family: Scrophulariaceae Type: Broadleaf Lifecycle: Biennial Habit: Grows from 6-24 inches tall and blooms from April to September. Leaves: Stems are up to 50 cm tall, erect, single or multiple from base, and typically simple or branching. Leaves of flowering stems are alternate, linear, and wispy, up to 3.5 cm long and 3 mm wide, with margins slightly thickened. Leaf Arrangement: Alternate Characteristics: It is identified by its irregular blue flowers, its small thin leaves, and its basal spurs. Flower Seed Head: Flowers are 1/4-1/2 inch long, pale blue-purple with lighter palate, small, on top of slender stalks, spurred, pubescent <br />internally. Upper lip erect, 2-lobed, and 5-6mm long. Lower lip 8mm long, 1.3cm broad, glabrous, and 3lobed. Lobes to 3mm long, 1mm broad (in flower), linear-oblong, acute, green, glandular pubescent. Seed Fruit: Fruits are capsules 3mm long and broad, many seeded, and glabrous. Where Found: Dry, sandy, or rocky soil, abandoned fields, roadsides, open ground, glades, bluffs, prairies, and railroads. Control Options Related Plants Terms and Definitions Additional Images:
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