Purple Toadflax
Linaria purpurea (L.) Mill.
- light
- —
- water
- —
- tall
- 1.1 m
- wide
- —
Plantaginaceae
Also called Purple Linaria, Linaria purpurea pink form
Formerly Antirrhinum purpureum, Linaria purpurascens, Termontis purpurea
When it flowers
Not known yet in the tropics: too few flowering observations to read a season from.
Read from iNaturalist photographs of it in flower. A month counts at 50% of the best month's flowering share (smoothed over three months) and 10% of its flowering count, from at least 100 flowering observations in the band.
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Something wrong with it?About it
- Grows as
- PerennialKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Climate
- TemperateKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Wild in
- C. & S. Italy to SiciliaKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Height
- 99 cm to 1.2 mRead from Wikipedia, one source
- Flowers
- White, purple, violetRead from Wikipedia, one source
Not known yet: light, spread, water, coldest it survives, heat, hottest it survives.
In other languages (12)
- French
- Linaire pourpre
- Czech
- lnice nachová
- German
- Purpur-Leinkraut
- Norwegian Bokmål
- purpurtorskemunn
- Finnish
- purppurakannusruoho
- Japanese
- ヒメキンギョソウ
- Estonian
- purpur-käokannus
- Russian
- Льнянка пурпурная
- Chinese
- 紫柳穿鱼
- Chinese (China)
- 紫柳穿鱼
- Swedish
- purpursporre
- Dutch
- Walstroleeuwenbek
Where this comes from
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC0-1.0 (observation counts)
- Wikidata, read 2026-10-25, CC0-1.0
- Kew's checklist, read 2026-10-24, CC-BY-4.0
- Wikipedia, read 2026-10-25, fact, cited
- Wikimedia Commons, read 2026-10-25, CC BY-SA 3.0
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY-SA
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY
- 3D model: Linaria purpurea (built for Vanagrha) by Vanagrha, own
A fact “checked by a majority of its sources” was settled by a vote of the pages it was read from, not by a person reading it; one marked “one source” rests on that page alone. Anything else not marked checked has not been checked yet. Where nothing is known, the page says so rather than guess.