Linaria repens(L.) Mill.

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WFO wfo-0000447080 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 8 separate observations

Linaria repens, photographed by goldfjnch
fig. a goldfjnch, CC0 1.0 / 2022-06-12 / obs. 205536498

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Native range 5 botanical countries

Regions where Linaria repens is native: Belgium, France, Germany, Italy, Spain BelgiumFranceGermanyItalySpain
Native distribution of Linaria repens, 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
Belgium BGM EUROPE
France FRA
Germany GER
Italy ITA
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 373 in flower of 377 examined

Proportion of examined Linaria repens 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 1 too few examined
Apr 0 1 too few examined
May 19 19 100% 83% to 100%
Jun 62 62 100% 94% to 100%
Jul 98 98 100% 96% to 100%
Aug 91 92 99% 94% to 100%
Sep 64 64 100% 94% to 100%
Oct 34 35 97% 85% to 99%
Nov 5 5 100% 57% to 100%
Dec 0 0 too few examined

Peak flowering in May. Each bar is the share of Linaria repens 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. 373 of 377 examined observations were in flower, every one of them research grade. The whisker on each bar is a 95% Wilson interval. 5 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 37 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 confertum Jan ex Benth.
  • Antirrhinum gallioides Vent.
  • Antirrhinum intermedium Steud.
  • Antirrhinum monspessulanum L.
  • Antirrhinum repens L.
  • Antirrhinum repens var. monspessulanum (L.) Pers.
  • Antirrhinum repens var. regulare Gray
  • Antirrhinum striatum Lam.
  • Antirrhinum versicolor Jacq. ex Murray
  • Linaria blanca Pau
  • Linaria cyparissias Tausch
  • Linaria decumbens Moench
  • Linaria dianthifolia Spreng.
  • Linaria galioides Schult. ex Steud.
  • Linaria monspessulana (L.) Mill.
  • Linaria procera DC.
  • Linaria repens subsp. blanca (Pau) Rivas Goday & Borja
  • Linaria repens var. alba Risso
  • Linaria repens var. blanca (Pau) O.Bolòs & Vigo
  • Linaria repens var. conferta (Benth.) Rouy
  • Linaria repens var. galioides (Lamotte) Rouy
  • Linaria repens var. galioides (Lamotte) Kerguélen
  • Linaria repens var. gleoides Dumort.
  • Linaria repens var. monspessulana (L.) Rouy

and 13 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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