Attractive plants that were probably introduced from Europe as ornamentals, Dalmatian and yellow toadflax are aggressive invasive species known to crowd out desirable plants along roadways, railroad ...

A number of my many different worlds converged recently around a tiny plant, blue toadflax (Nuttallanthus canadensis). What is remarkable is that anyone noticed them. This is an easily overlooked ...

Most plants get chosen; some, however, choose you. Or at least this is how I feel about toadflax. It's the kind of plant that turns up and tucks itself into a corner you weren't much interested in.

I was up at a farmers’ market in Lewiston and, in the midst of a veritable concrete desert, there at the juncture of an old concrete building foundation and a concrete-asphalt parking lot was a burst ...

Maintenance: For best results, water regularly, two to three times weekly for initial seed germination. Keep soil moist, but not soggy, and do not permit the area to dry out. Once seedlings are ...

A perennial plant native to the Mediterranean is June’s Weed of the Month. Dalmatian toadflax (Linaria dalmatica) was brought to the western United States as an ornamental, escaped cultivation, and ...

With the first warm days, spring flowers are beginning to bloom, bringing welcome color into our lives once again. Though many people love to use snapdragons in gardens, few are familiar with a ...

Dalmation toadflax flowers are in the axils of the leaves in a spike at the end of each stalk. Flowers are yellow to orange in color and produces a two-cell fruit capsule, which contain the seeds.

If you’ve been out driving lately, you may have noticed a flush of blue wildflowers on the roadsides. The flowers are 1 to 2 feet tall with lavender-blue blooms atop thin, leggy stems. They are small ...

The Maltese toadflax known as Il-papoċċi ta’ Malta (Linaria pseudolaxiflora) is a very rare plant which lives in exposed pockets of stony soil on rocky ground close to the sea, paving and ...