Field Guide to Noxious and Other Selected Weeds of British Columbia

Yellow Toadflax (Linaria vulgaris)


  • Provincial Noxious Weed

  • creeping rooted perennial to 0.6 metres tall; the stalkless leaves are narrow and pointed at both ends; bright yellow "snapdragon-like" flowers with an orange spot on the lower lip are 2 to 3.5 cm long

  • flowers similar to but smaller than Dalmatian toadflax (Linaria dalmatica); likely introduced as an ornamental.
Yellow snapdragon-like flowers

Photo courtesy BC Ministry of Forests

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