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Linaria arenaria
Also called French Toadflax
Linaria arenaria is a small yellow-flowered annual in the Plantain family, native to sand dunes of western France, north-west Spain and Portugal. Its key to growing is a sunny spot in very free-draining sandy soil, since it is adapted to dry, nutrient-poor dunes.
Linaria arenaria, sometimes called sand toadflax or French toadflax, is a yellow-flowered member of the genus Linaria. It is found in sand-dunes and sandy grassland in western France, north-west Spain and Portugal and is thus a psammophyte plant . It is found casually in England and reliably at two sites. One is Braunton Burrows in north Devon where it was planted around 1893 and continues to grow, and the other, since 2004, is in north Somerset.
Linaria algarviana · Alpine toadflax · Linaria altaica · Linaria amethystea · Clovenlip toadflax · White Toadflax · Balkan Toadflax · Broomleaf toadflax · Annual Toadflax · Maltese toadflax · Purple Toadflax · Striped toadflax
Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Linaria arenaria 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.
