Linaria amethystea

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 8 separate observations

Linaria amethystea, photographed by Santiago Martín-Bravo — fig. b Santiago Martín-Bravo, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 186611067

Linaria amethystea, photographed by Rafael Medina — fig. c Rafael Medina, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 125728368

Linaria amethystea, photographed by João Gonçalves — fig. d João Gonçalves, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 118035444

Linaria amethystea, photographed by Duarte Frade — fig. e Duarte Frade, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 62444033

Linaria amethystea, photographed by Daniel Heras González — fig. f Daniel Heras González, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 112118082

Linaria amethystea, photographed by José Luis Camaño — fig. g José Luis Camaño, CC0 1.0 / obs. 150502528

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Native range 4 botanical countries

Native distribution of Linaria amethystea, 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
Morocco	MOR	AFRICA
Western Sahara	WSA
Portugal	POR	EUROPE
Spain	SPA

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 258 in flower of 260 examined

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Proportion of examined Linaria amethystea in flower, by month
Month	In flower	Examined	Share	95% interval
Jan	22	22	100%	85% to 100%
Feb	61	62	98%	91% to 100%
Mar	66	67	99%	92% to 100%
Apr	72	72	100%	95% to 100%
May	29	29	100%	88% to 100%
Jun	3	3	too few examined
Jul	0	0	too few examined
Aug	0	0	too few examined
Sep	0	0	too few examined
Oct	0	0	too few examined
Nov	0	0	too few examined
Dec	5	5	100%	57% to 100%

Peak flowering in Jan. Each bar is the share of Linaria amethystea 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. 258 of 260 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 29 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 amethysteum Vent.
Antirrhinum amethystinum Willd.
Antirrhinum broussonetii Poir.
Antirrhinum elegans Pers.
Antirrhinum multipunctatum Brot.
Antirrhinum polygonifolium Poir.
Antirrhinum subalpinum Brot.
Linaria amethystea f. broussonetii (Poir.) Valdés
Linaria amethystea f. subalpina (Brot.) Samp.
Linaria amethystea subsp. ignescens (Kunze) D.A.Sutton
Linaria amethystea var. albiflora Boiss.
Linaria amethystea var. bicolor J.Gay ex Lange
Linaria amethystea var. broussonetii (Poir.) Pérez Lara
Linaria amethystea var. concolor Levier
Linaria amethystea var. flava Chav.
Linaria amethystea var. flaviflora Lange
Linaria amethystea var. ignescens (Kunze) Malato-Beliz
Linaria amethystea var. subalpina (Brot.) Cout.
Linaria bipunctata Nyman
Linaria broussonetii (Poir.) Steud.
Linaria broussonetii var. ignescens (Kunze) Braun-Blanq. & Maire
Linaria broussonnetii (Poir.) Chav.
Linaria fragosoi Sennen
Linaria ignescens Kunze

and 5 more.

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.
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.

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