Linaria genistifolia(L.) Mill.

broomleaf toadflax

WFO wfo-0000446862 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC0 / CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 8 separate observations

Linaria genistifolia, photographed by Zoltán Stekkelpak
fig. a Zoltán Stekkelpak, CC0 1.0 / 2022-06-02 / obs. 202642833
Linaria genistifolia, photographed by Aleksei Baushev
fig. b Aleksei Baushev, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 196514612
Linaria genistifolia, photographed by Юрий Данилевский (Yuriy Danilevsky)
fig. c Юрий Данилевский (Yuriy Danilevsky), CC BY 4.0 / obs. 185999781
Linaria genistifolia, photographed by Quentin Groom
fig. d Quentin Groom, CC0 1.0 / obs. 182691125
Linaria genistifolia, photographed by Anna Petrosyan
fig. e Anna Petrosyan, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 164959536
Linaria genistifolia, photographed by Anna Petrosyan
fig. f Anna Petrosyan, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 162096652
Linaria genistifolia, photographed by Galyna Mykytynets
fig. g Galyna Mykytynets, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 172581913
Linaria genistifolia, photographed by Galyna Mykytynets
fig. h Galyna Mykytynets, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 172579181

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Native range 26 botanical countries

Regions where Linaria genistifolia is native: Altay, Kazakhstan, Krasnoyarsk, Lebanon-Syria, North Caucasus, Transcaucasus, Türkiye, Uzbekistan, West Siberia, Xinjiang, Albania, Austria, Bulgaria, Central European Russia, Czechia-Slovakia, East European Russia, Greece, Hungary, Italy, Krym, NW. Balkan Pen., Poland, Romania, South European Russia, Türkiye-in-Europe, Ukraine AltayKazakhstanKrasnoyarskLebanon-SyriaNorth CaucasusTranscaucasusTürkiyeUzbekistanWest SiberiaXinjiangAlbaniaAustriaBulgariaCentral European RussiaCzechia-SlovakiaEast European RussiaGreeceHungaryItalyKrymNW. Balkan Pen.PolandRomaniaSouth European RussiaTürkiye-in-EuropeUkraine
Native distribution of Linaria genistifolia, 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.
RegionTDWG codeContinent
Albania ALB EUROPE
Austria AUT
Bulgaria BUL
Central European Russia RUC
Czechia-Slovakia CZE
East European Russia RUE
Greece GRC
Hungary HUN
Italy ITA
Krym KRY
NW. Balkan Pen. YUG
Poland POL
Romania ROM
South European Russia RUS
Türkiye-in-Europe TUE
Ukraine UKR
Altay ALT ASIA-TEMPERATE
Kazakhstan KAZ
Krasnoyarsk KRA
Lebanon-Syria LBS
North Caucasus NCS
Transcaucasus TCS
Türkiye TUR
Uzbekistan UZB
West Siberia WSB
Xinjiang CHX

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 176 in flower of 224 examined

Peak flowering in Jul. Each bar is the share of Linaria genistifolia 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. 176 of 224 examined observations were in flower, every one of them research grade. The whisker on each bar is a 95% Wilson interval. 3 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 58 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 dalmaticum Gueldenst. ex Ledeb.
  • Antirrhinum genistifolium L.
  • Antirrhinum pallidiflorum Lam.
  • Antirrhinum supinum Sm.
  • Linaria adzharica Kem.-Nath.
  • Linaria balansae Boiss. & Reut.
  • Linaria caucasigena Kem.-Nath.
  • Linaria chlorifolia Rchb.
  • Linaria concolor Griseb.
  • Linaria concolor f. serpens (Griseb.) Hayek
  • Linaria concolor var. serpens Griseb.
  • Linaria dalmatica var. parviflora Albov
  • Linaria dolopica Formánek
  • Linaria euxina Velen.
  • Linaria flavissima Boiss.
  • Linaria genistifolia subsp. angustata (Wierzb. ex Heuff.) Dostál
  • Linaria genistifolia subsp. linifolia (Boiss.) Nyman
  • Linaria genistifolia var. angustata Wierzb. ex Heuff.
  • Linaria genistifolia var. angustifolia K.Koch
  • Linaria genistifolia var. concolor (Griseb.) Nyman
  • Linaria genistifolia var. confertiflora Boiss.
  • Linaria genistifolia var. euxina (Velen.) Stef. & Jordanov
  • Linaria genistifolia var. linifolia Boiss.
  • Linaria genistifolia var. orbelica Velen.

and 34 more.

Sourcesevery claim on this page

  1. World Flora Online Plant List. accepted name, authority, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
  2. iNaturalist. photographs and flowering annotations, CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA only. per photograph. Retrieved 2026-06-27.
  3. Wikidata. common name (P1843), joined on the World Flora Online identifier (P7715). CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-13.
  4. 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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