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Common Toadflax

©Amy Lewis

Common toadflax

Look for common toadflax on waste ground and grassland, and along roadside verges and hedgerows. Its yellow-and-orange flowers are tightly packed on a tall spike and have distinctive 'spurs'.

Enw gwyddonol

Linaria vulgaris

Pryd i'w gweld

June to November

Gwybodaeth am rywogaethau

Ystadegau

Height: up to 75cm
Common.

Ynghylch

Common toadflax is a common plant of waste ground, grassland, roadside verges and hedgerows. Its yellow-and-orange flowers appear in June and persist well into November; they look like the flowers of snapdragons (familiar garden plants), and are often densely packed. These flowers give the plant its other common name of 'butter and eggs'.

Sut i'w hadnabod

The upright stems of common toadflax have narrow leaves. Its flowers are creamy-yellow, with orange centres and long 'spurs', and form dense clusters at the top of the stems.

Dosbarthiad

Widespread.

Roeddech chi yn gwybod?

Common toadflax provides a food source for Buff-tailed and White-tailed bumblebees, Common carder bees, Honeybees and a variety of fly species.