Linaria alpina (Alpine toadflax)

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 8 separate observations

Linaria alpina, photographed by Alessia Guggisberg — fig. a Alessia Guggisberg, CC BY 4.0 / 2022-06-10 / obs. 204943482

Linaria alpina, photographed by Olivier Argagnon — fig. b Olivier Argagnon, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 168841403

Linaria alpina, photographed by Juraj Ahel — fig. c Juraj Ahel, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 159959082

Linaria alpina, photographed by Marco Mussita — fig. d Marco Mussita, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 157542360

Linaria alpina, photographed by Jan Vršovský — fig. e Jan Vršovský, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 156309898

Linaria alpina, photographed by kfa — fig. f kfa, CC0 1.0 / obs. 154151129

Linaria alpina, photographed by Denis Bastianelli — fig. g Denis Bastianelli, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 153431431

Linaria alpina, photographed by bigayon — fig. h bigayon, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 156623763

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Native range 11 botanical countries

Native distribution of Linaria alpina, after Kew’s World Checklist of Vascular Plants. Introduced, extinct and doubtful records are excluded, so this is where the plant is from, not everywhere it now grows.

Region	TDWG code	Continent
Albania	ALB	EUROPE
Austria	AUT
Czechia-Slovakia	CZE
France	FRA
Germany	GER
Greece	GRC
Italy	ITA
NW. Balkan Pen.	YUG
Romania	ROM
Spain	SPA
Switzerland	SWI

Region boundaries approximated from Natural Earth (public domain) and mapped to TDWG World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions (WGSRPD) level-3 botanical countries (Brummitt 2001). Indicative, not the official WGSRPD geometry.

Flowering 754 in flower of 762 examined

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97%

Proportion of examined Linaria alpina in flower, by month
Month	In flower	Examined	Share	95% interval
Jan	0	0	too few examined
Feb	0	0	too few examined
Mar	0	0	too few examined
Apr	3	3	too few examined
May	52	52	100%	93% to 100%
Jun	196	196	100%	98% to 100%
Jul	240	242	99%	97% to 100%
Aug	166	168	99%	96% to 100%
Sep	61	63	97%	89% to 99%
Oct	32	33	97%	85% to 99%
Nov	3	3	too few examined
Dec	1	2	too few examined

Peak flowering in May. Each bar is the share of Linaria alpina observations in which someone actually recorded the reproductive state and found the plant in flower, not the raw number of flowering records. That distinction matters: people observe plants far more in spring than in winter, so a bare count of flowering records partly measures when people go outside. Dividing by the number examined removes that. 754 of 762 examined observations were in flower, every one of them research grade. The whisker on each bar is a 95% Wilson interval. 6 months have fewer than 5 examined observations, so no proportion is drawn for them. This is still a global aggregate and not a forecast for your garden: the same species flowers on different dates in different hemispheres. Where a species has fewer than 30 flowering records we do not draw this chart at all. Computed from 10.15468/dl.cgje2x.

Also published as 18 synonyms

A synonym is not an error. It is a record of botanists disagreeing, in print, about where this plant belongs. Each of these was somebody’s considered answer.

Antirrhinum alpinum L.
Cymbalaria alpina (L.) Raf.
Linaria alpina f. pilosa (Foucaud) Valdés
Linaria alpina prol. benearnensis Rouy
Linaria alpina subsp. aciculifolia Braun-Blanq.
Linaria alpina subsp. benearnensis (Rouy) Kerguélen
Linaria alpina var. aciculifolia (Braun-Blanq.) O.Bolòs & Vigo
Linaria alpina var. angustifolia Lange
Linaria alpina var. diffusa Rouy
Linaria alpina var. erecta Chav.
Linaria alpina var. glacialis Brügger
Linaria alpina var. gracilis Rouy
Linaria alpina var. olympica Stoj. & Jordanov
Linaria alpina var. petraea (Jord.) Gaut.
Linaria alpina var. pilosa Foucaud
Linaria benearnensis Rouy
Linaria filicaulis Boiss. ex Leresche & Levier
Linaria petraea Jord.

Sourcesevery claim on this page

World Flora Online Plant List. accepted name, authority, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
iNaturalist. photographs and flowering annotations, CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA only. per photograph. Retrieved 2026-06-27.
Wikidata. common name (P1843), joined on the World Flora Online identifier (P7715). CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-13.
Kew, World Checklist of Vascular Plants (WCVP v16). native distribution by TDWG level-3 botanical country, and life form. CC BY 3.0. Retrieved 2026-06-04.

We publish what we can source and we say so when we cannot. This page has no care advice and no toxicity claim, because we do not yet have those from a source we can cite.