Yellow toadflax

Description

The yellow toadflax ( Linaria saxatilis ) is a herbaceous of the family of escrofulariáceas . Of stems more or less erect, green ashy, generally hairy and somewhat sticky, up to 25 cm, with lower leaves emerging from the same point and the upper ones alternate and elongated. It blooms in spring and summer, forming groups of flowers at the end of the stems. The flowers are bi-labiate, yellow and with a short spur, very slightly curved. In the Iberian Peninsula . It grows little abundant in ditches, among the piornos and in the glades of the holm oaks . In the mountains it can reach 2,000 meters above sea level.