Linaria repens, (L.) Miller

Tutin, T. G., Heywood, V. H., Burges, N. A., Moore, D. M., Valentine, D. H., Walters, S. M. & Webb, D. A., 1972, Flora Europaea. Volume 3. Diapensiacea to Myoporaceae, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press : 231

30. L. repens (L.) Miller , Gard. Diet. ed. 8, no. 6 (1768)

( L. striata D C.; inch L. bianca Pau , L. monspessulana (L.) Miller ).

Glabrous perennial; stems 30-120 cm, erect from a creeping rhizome, usually branched above. Leaves 15-40 x 1-2-5 mm, linear to linear-oblanceolate, acute, verticillate, sometimes alternate above. Racemes usually long and dense at anthesis, lax in fruit; pedicels 2-3 mm at anthesis, up to 4-5 mm in fruit; usually equalling bracts. Calyx 2-3 mm; lobes narrowly lanceolate, acute, subequal. Corolla 8-15 mm, white to pale lilac, with violet veins; spur 3-5 mm, conical, straight. Stigma capitate. Capsule 3-4 mm. Seeds 1-2-1-7 mm, ovoid-trigonous, strongly rugose, dark grey, with acute, almost winged angles. • From N. Spain and N. W. Italy to N. W. Germany; widely naturalized in N. W. & C. Europe. Be?B1 Ga Ge Hs It [Au Br Cz D a Fe Hb He Ho No Po Rs (B) Su].

L. xsepium Allman , Proc. Roy. Irish Acad. 2: 405 (1843), (30 x 34) is the commonest hybrid in the genus. It is intermediate between the parents in most characters but, being partly fertile, is rather variable.