Common toadflax
Linaria vulgaris Mill.
- light
- Full sun
- water
- Little
- tall
- 52 cm
- wide
- 61 cm
Plantaginaceae
Also called Yellow toadflax, Butter-and-eggs, Butter and eggs, Butter-And-Egg, Common Linaria
Formerly Antirrhinum linaria, Antirrhinum vulgare, Peloria linaria
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.
If a child, a pet or anyone may have eaten a plant, contact a doctor or vet straight away, or call the National Poisons Information Centre (AIIMS, New Delhi) on 1800 116 117, free and open 24 hours.
Something wrong with it?About it
- Grows as
- PerennialKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Climate
- TemperateKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Wild in
- Europe to Siberia and C. AsiaKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Light
- Full sun (6 h or more)Read from NC State Extension, one source
- Height
- 15 cm to 89 cmRead from Wikipedia, one source
- Spread
- 61 cmRead from PFAF, one source
- Water
- Little: takes droughtRead from NC State Extension, one source
- Flowers
- Yellow, orangeRead from NC State Extension and Wikipedia, checked by a majority of its sourcesBacked by both sources
- Coldest it survives
- -34.4 °C (USDA zone 4a)Read from PFAF, one source
Not known yet: heat, hottest it survives.
In other languages (12)
- German
- Gemeines Leinkraut, Echtes Leinkraut, Gewöhnliches Leinkraut
- French
- Linaire commune, Linaire vulgaire
- Dutch
- Vlasbekje
- root
- LINVUL, Хурц зажлуургана, Llin y llyffant
- Finnish
- keltakannusruoho
- Russian
- Льнянка обыкновенная
- Swedish
- Gulsporre
- Spanish
- linaria común
- Czech
- lnice květel, lnice obecná
- Danish
- Almindelig torskemund
- Estonian
- harilik käokannus
- Lithuanian
- Paprastoji linažolė
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
- NC State Extension, read 2026-10-25, fact, cited
- Wikipedia, read 2026-10-25, fact, cited
- PFAF, read 2026-10-26, fact, cited
- Wikimedia Commons, read 2026-10-25, CC BY-SA 3.0
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY
- 3D model: Linaria vulgaris (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.