Linaria polygalifolia

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 8 separate observations

Linaria polygalifolia, photographed by franciscodocampo — fig. b franciscodocampo, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 164284858

Linaria polygalifolia, photographed by José Luis Camaño — fig. c José Luis Camaño, CC0 1.0 / obs. 151976529

Linaria polygalifolia, photographed by Ivo Rosa — fig. h Ivo Rosa, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 57017503

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Native range 2 botanical countries

Native distribution of Linaria polygalifolia, 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
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 94 in flower of 95 examined

100%

89%

Proportion of examined Linaria polygalifolia in flower, by month
Month	In flower	Examined	Share	95% interval
Jan	6	6	100%	61% to 100%
Feb	5	5	100%	57% to 100%
Mar	13	13	100%	77% to 100%
Apr	17	17	100%	82% to 100%
May	9	9	100%	70% to 100%
Jun	7	7	100%	65% to 100%
Jul	14	14	100%	78% to 100%
Aug	6	6	100%	61% to 100%
Sep	4	4	too few examined
Oct	8	9	89%	56% to 98%
Nov	3	3	too few examined
Dec	2	2	too few examined

Peak flowering in Jan. Each bar is the share of Linaria polygalifolia 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. 94 of 95 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 17 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 glaucophyllum (Hoffmanns. & Link) Brot.
Antirrhinum polygalifolium (Hoffmanns. & Link) Brot.
Linaria aguillonensis (García Mart.) García Mart. & Silva Pando
Linaria arrabidensis Welw. ex Nyman
Linaria broteri Rouy
Linaria caesia f. lilacina Merino
Linaria caesia subsp. decumbens (Lange) M.Laínz
Linaria caesia subsp. polygalifolia (Hoffmanns. & Link) P.Silva
Linaria caesia var. broteri (Rouy) Cout.
Linaria caesia var. broteri (Rouy) Merino
Linaria caesia var. decumbens Lange
Linaria caesia var. polygalifolia (Hoffmanns. & Link) Cout.
Linaria glaucophylla Hoffmanns. & Link
Linaria lamarckii Rouy
Linaria navarroi Rivas Mart.
Linaria thymifolia subsp. aguillonensis García Mart.
Linaria thymifolia subsp. aquillonensis García-Martín

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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