Linaria maroccana

LINARIA maroccana
Toadflax

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Type:
Annual

Height: 9" (20cm)

Flowering Time: Summer

Flower Colour: White, yellow, orange, pink, mauve, purple

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Botanical Classification:

Class:
Angiospermae (Angiosperms)

Subclass: Dicotyledonae (Dicotyledons)

Superorder: Asteridae (Daisy Superorder)

Order: Scrophulariales (Figwort Order)

Family: Scrophulariaceae (Figwort Family)

Genus: Linaria (Toadflax)

Species: maroccana (from Morocco)

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Linaria maroccana is a North African version of our own wild Toadflax. It is an elegant little annual, useful for adding colour to the front of a border or for a children's garden. It grows to a height of around a foot, with finely divided ferny foliage, and dense spikes of elegant little lipped flowers with a long spur, often with a contrasting blotch on the lip, in summer.
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Harvesting and Growing from Seed:

Seed Pod
Each flower produces its own seedpod. The seedpod is a ball.

Seed
The seeds are very dark brown papery discs. There are many seeds in each seedpod.

Seedling
The seedleaves are long and narrow, with a greyish tint.

Seed sowing and Germination
Spring: Seeds sown outside in spring germinated in 5 days.

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	Seed Pod Each flower produces its own seedpod. The seedpod is a ball.
	Seed The seeds are very dark brown papery discs. There are many seeds in each seedpod.
	Seedling The seedleaves are long and narrow, with a greyish tint.
Seed sowing and Germination Spring: Seeds sown outside in spring germinated in 5 days.