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Linaria bipartita
Also called Cloven Lip Toadflax, Cloven Flowered Toadflax
Clovenlip toadflax is a small annual herb from Morocco, grown for its scented reddish purple snapdragon-like flowers with a split upper lip. It is a wild species rather than a common garden plant, so care is best matched to a sunny, well-drained spot in a temperate garden.
Linaria bipartita (cloven-flowered toadflax or clovenlip toadflax) is a species of flowering plant in the plantain family native and endemic to Morocco. It is currently recognised as a distinct species by the Plants of the World Online database, though it has also been treated by some authors as a synonym of the related Iberian species Linaria incarnata.
It is an annual herb growing 10 to 45 cm tall with linear leaves 3–5 cm in length. The inflorescence is a raceme of flowers occupying the top of the stem. The flowers are scented, reddish purple with a yellow-tipped white central spot, about 2 cm long, with five lobes arranged into two lips, and with a spur at the end; the top two lobes are deeply divided, giving the plant its scientific and vernacular names. The fruit is a spherical capsule about 2 mm wide.
Linaria algarviana · Alpine toadflax · Linaria altaica · Linaria amethystea · Sand Toadflax · White Toadflax · Balkan Toadflax · Broomleaf toadflax · Annual Toadflax · Maltese toadflax · Purple Toadflax · Striped toadflax
Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Linaria bipartita 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.
