Toadflaxes & Allies

Plantain Family - Plantaginaceae

Common Hedge-hyssop Gratiola officinalis

Native throughout most of mainland Europe to western Asia. typically a plant of damp areas and seasonally wet ground.


Habit	Habit	Flower	Flower

Leaf

Common Snapdragon Antirrhinum majus

Native to southern France and Iberia but widely grown and escaping from cultivation elsewhere.


Habit	Habit	Flowers	Flowers

Flower	Leaf	Leaf	Stem

Weasel's-snout Misopates orontium

Native throughout the Mediterranean region, southern Europe and the Middle East to India and East Africa. Typically in bare or disturbed ground.


Habit	Flower	Leaf	Seed capsule

Long-spurred Toadflax Linaria chalepensis

Native throughout most of the European Mediterranean Region, from France eastwards to the Middle East and Iran.


Habit	Flower

Jersey Toadflax Linaria pelisseriana

Native throughout the Mediterranean region, eastwards to Asia Minor.


Habit	Habit	Flowers	Flowers

Small Yellow Toadflax Linaria simplex

Native throughout the Mediterranean Region, eastwards through the Middle East to Pakistan. A tiny plant with flowers just 5-9mm long.


Habit	Flower	Flower	Flower

Stems and leaves	Leaf	Seed capsule	Old seed capsule

Common Ivy-leaved Toadflax Cymbalaria muralis

Native to the southern Alps and North-western Balkan Peninsula but widely introduced elsewhere. Easily identified from its ivy-like leaves, toadflax flowers and trailing habit. Flowers usually pale violet, but sometimes white.


Habit	Flowers	Flower	Leaf

Sharp-leaved Fluellen Kickxia elatine

Native throughout Europe, eastwards to Central Asia and southward to North-east Africa and the Arabian Peninsula. A trailing annual plant with leaves like those of Field Bindweed, but hairy. Leaves very variable in shape but always with a few pointed lobes. Flowers solitary in the leaf axils on stems more or less hairless except close to the flower, flowers small - just 7-11mm long with a more or less straight spur.


Habit	Flower	Flower	Leaf

Mediterranean Fluellen Kickxia commutata

Native throughout most of the European Mediterranean Region, from France eastwards to the Middle East and Iran. Similar to Sharp-leaved Fluellen, but more shaggily hairy and the flowers with a strongly curved spur.


Stems and leaves	Leaf

Round-leaved Fluellen Kickxia spuria

Native throughout Europe and the Mediterranean Region, eastwards to Iran. A trailing annual plant with rounded, hairy leaves. Flowers solitary in the leaf axils on stems noticeably clothed in long hairs, flowers small - just 7-11mm long.