Linaria purpurea(L.) Mill.

Purple Toadflax

WFO wfo-0000447110 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC0 / CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h

Linaria purpurea, photographed by Teresa Jegelewicz Mayfield-Meyer
fig. a Teresa Jegelewicz Mayfield-Meyer, CC BY 4.0 / 2022-06-12 / obs. 205608977
Linaria purpurea, photographed by Antony Coombs
fig. b Antony Coombs, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 205565798
Linaria purpurea, photographed by Jon Sullivan
fig. c Jon Sullivan, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 194982418
Linaria purpurea, photographed by Nick Blewden
fig. d Nick Blewden, CC0 1.0 / obs. 200945375
Linaria purpurea, photographed by Andrew Skotnicki
fig. e Andrew Skotnicki, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 205867312
Linaria purpurea, photographed by David Lazarus
fig. f David Lazarus, CC0 1.0 / obs. 202448688
Linaria purpurea, photographed by Tony Wills
fig. g Tony Wills, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 194662098
Linaria purpurea, photographed by Daniel Cahen
fig. h Daniel Cahen, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 195708016

Every figure is a research-grade observation under CC0, CC BY or CC BY-SA, rehosted with the photographer’s name, the licence and the observation it came from. Photographs under a NonCommercial licence are excluded from this site and are never stored, which costs us a great many pictures and is not negotiable.

Flowering n = 1,666 observations

Peak flowering in Jun, from 1,666 community-annotated observations worldwide. This is a global aggregate, not a forecast for your garden: the same species flowers on different dates in different hemispheres, and citizen-science records cluster near cities, at weekends, and in spring. Where a species has fewer than 30 annotated records we do not draw this chart at all.

Also published as 3 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 purpureum L.
  • Linaria purpurascens Bernh. ex Hornem.
  • Termontis purpurea (L.) Raf.

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.

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