Plants of South Eastern New South Wales
Linaria arvensis
Common name
Corn Toadflax
Family
Plantaginaceae
Where found
Forest, woodland, disturbed sites, and roadsides. Kosciuszko National Park, the mountains to the north, and ACT. Tablelands south of the Hume Highway.
Notes
Introduced annual herb to 0.40 m high, hairless except for the glandular hairs on the inflorescence. Leaves whorled near the base, alternating up the stems higher up, 0.4–3.5 cm long, 1–2 mm wide. Flowers 3-4 mm long, pale blue to purple, at least the rounded boss at the base of the 3 lower lobes often white; tubular, 2-lipped, with 5 lobes, and with a curved spur 1–3 mm long pointing back at about right-angles to the tube. Flowers in many-flowered clusters, at first dense, elongating at the seeding stage. Flowering: chiefly spring.
Family was Scrophulariaceae.
PlantNET description: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Linaria~arvensis (accessed 23 January, 2021)
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