butter and eggs
(Linaria vulgaris)
Conservation • Weed • Description • Habitat • Ecology • Use • Distribution • Taxonomy
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| IUCN Red List | not listed |
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| NatureServe | NNA - Not applicable SNA - Not applicable |
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| Minnesota | not listed |
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Butter and eggs is listed as an invasive terrestrial plant by the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources. However, it is not currently regulated in Minnesota. |
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Description |
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Butter and eggs is an easily recognized, 12″ to 36″ tall, erect, perennial forb that rises on 1 to 25 stems from a taproot up to 40″ long and and shallow, creeping rhizomes up to 12′ or more long. It aggressively forms colonies. The stems are erect, often branched near the top, leafy, and hairless below the inflorescence. The leaves are numerous, crowded, and alternate, but closely spaced so that they may appear opposite or even whorled. They are linear, ¾″ to 2″ long, and 1 ⁄16″ to ¼″ wide. They are stalkless but are narrowed below to a stalk-like base. A single prominent vein runs from the base to the tip of the blade. The upper and lower surfaces are pale green and hairless. The margins are untoothed. The inflorescence is an unbranched, elongated, dense, spike-like cluster (raceme) at the end of the stem. The flowers are crowded, snapdragon-like, and ¾″ to 1½″ long including the spur. There are 5 white to yellow petals fused into a corolla tube with an upper and a lower lip. The upper lip bends sharply upward and is then divided into 2 spreading lobes. The lower lip is divided into 2 lobes that bend downward and a rounded palate that obstructs the opening of the corolla tube. There is a long nectar spur at the base of the corolla that hangs downward. The upper and lower lips are white to yellow, the palate is yellow at the base to orange at the tip. The upper lip is longer than the lower lip. There are 4 stamens. The fruit is a round to oval, 5 ⁄16″ to ½″ long capsule with numerous winged seeds. |
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Height |
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12″ to 36″ |
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Flower Color |
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Creamy white, yellow, and orange |
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Habitat |
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Dry. Fields, roadsides, waste places. Full sun. |
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Ecology |
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Flowering |
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May to September |
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Native to Europe and Asia. Introduced as an ornamental, escaped and naturalized. |
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Taxonomy |
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| Kingdom | Plantae (green algae and land plants) | ||
| Subkingdom | Viridiplantae (green plants) | ||
| Infrakingdom | Streptophyta (land plants and green algae) | ||
| Superdivision | Embryophyta (land plants) | ||
| Division | Tracheophyta (vascular plants) | ||
| Subdivision | Spermatophytina (seed plants) / Angiospermae (flowering plants) | ||
| Class | Magnoliopsida (flowering plants) | ||
| Superorder | Asteranae | ||
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Lamiales (mints, plantains, olives, and allies) | ||
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Plantaginaceae (plantain) | ||
| Tribe | Antirrhineae | ||
| Genus | Linaria (toadflax) | ||
| Section | Linaria | ||
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| Linaria linaria | |||
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butter and eggs butterandeggs butter-and-eggs common toadflax flaxweed greater butter-and-eggs Jacob’s ladder ramsted wild snapdragon yellow toadflax |
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Glossary
Corolla
A collective name for all of the petals of a flower.
Linear
Long, straight, and narrow, with more or less parallel sides, like a blade of grass.
Sepal
An outer floral leaf, usually green but sometimes colored, at the base of a flower.
Wing
A thin, flat, membranous, usually transparent appendage on the margin of a structure.
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| Toadflax DianesDigitals |
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| Linaria vulgaris (Butter-and-eggs) Allen Chartier |
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| Environmental Laboratory - U.S. Army Corps of Engineers EnvLabERDC |
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About
Published on Feb 15, 2013 Linaria vulgaris - Yellow Toadflax |
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| Vlasbekje - Linaria vulgaris - Common Toadflax dreamshot |
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Uploaded on Aug 17, 2010 HD stockshots broadcast format available at: http://www.stockshot.nl/ - vlasleeuwenbek, vlasleeuwebekje, vlasbekje - Flaaksliuwebekje - linaria vulgaris - Common Toadflax, Yellow Toadflax, Butter-and-eggs - Echte Leinkraut - Gemeines Leinkraut, Gewöhnliches Leinkraut, Kleines Löwenmaul - linaire commune - Almindelig Torskemund - Gulsporre - Lnica pospolita weegbreefamilie (Plantaginaceae). |
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| Common Toadflax (Linaria Vulgaris) - 2012-09-16 W3stlander |
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Published on Nov 7, 2012 Linaria vulgaris (Common Toadflax, Yellow Toadflax, or Butter-and-eggs) is a species of toadflax (Linaria) -------------- |
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