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Linaria altaica is a small perennial toadflax with light yellow snapdragon-like flowers, native to mountainous steppe of Russia, Kazakhstan and Mongolia. It is a wild alpine-steppe species rarely grown in gardens, and it needs sharp drainage and cold winters.
Linaria altaica is a species of flowering plant that was described by Fisher and Carl Friedrich von Ledebour. Linaria altaica belongs to the genus Linaria, in the family Plantaginaceae. It has no listed subspecies.
It can be found in Russia, in East European Russia, Krasnoyarsk, Altai and Tuva, and also in Kazakhstan and Mongolia. It is present mostly in mountainous terrain.
Linaria algarviana · Alpine toadflax · Linaria amethystea · Sand Toadflax · Clovenlip toadflax · White Toadflax · Balkan Toadflax · Broomleaf toadflax · Annual Toadflax · Maltese toadflax · Purple Toadflax · Striped toadflax
Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Linaria altaica by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts and the care summary drawn from them are shared under the same licence.
The care summary was written by AI (Claude, Anthropic) from the sources on this page, with general growing knowledge where they are silent. Check before relying on it.
Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.
