PLANTS Profile for Linaria vulgaris (butter and eggs)

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PLANTS Profile

Linaria vulgaris Mill.
butter and eggs

Symbol:

LIVU2

Group:

Dicot

Family:

Scrophulariaceae

Duration:

Perennial

Growth Habit:

Forb/herb

Native Status:

L48		I
AK		I
CAN		I
GL		I
SPM		I

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Brother Alfred Brousseau. Courtesy of St. Mary's College of California. ©St. Mary's College of California. Usage Requirements. Any use of copyrighted images requires notification of the copyright holder.

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Linaria vulgaris Mill.

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Synonyms:
Linaria vulgaris Mill.

LILI6

Linaria linaria (L.) Karst.

Distribution:
Linaria vulgaris Mill.


View Native Status

See U.S. county distributions (when available) by clicking on the map or the linked states below:
USA (AK, AL, AR, AZ, CA, CO, CT, DC, DE, FL, GA, IA, ID, IL, IN, KS, KY, LA, MA, MD, ME, MI, MN, MO, MS, MT, NC, ND, NE, NH, NJ, NM, NV, NY, OH, OK, OR, PA, RI, SC, SD, TN, TX, UT, VA, VT, WA, WI, WV, WY), CAN (AB, BC, MB, NB, NF, NS, NT, ON, PE, QC, SK, YT), DEN (GL), FRA (SPM)

Related Taxa:
Linaria vulgaris Mill.

View 91 genera in Scrophulariaceae, 15 species in Linaria

Classification:
Linaria vulgaris Mill.

Click on a scientific name below to expand it in the PLANTS Classification Report.


Kingdom	Plantae – Plants
Subkingdom	Tracheobionta – Vascular plants
Superdivision	Spermatophyta – Seed plants
Division	Magnoliophyta – Flowering plants
Class	Magnoliopsida – Dicotyledons
Subclass	Asteridae
Order	Scrophulariales
Family	Scrophulariaceae – Figwort family
Genus	Linaria Mill. – toadflax
Species	Linaria vulgaris Mill. – butter and eggs

Noxious Weed Information:
Linaria vulgaris Mill.

This plant is listed by the U.S. federal government or a state. Common names are from state and federal lists. Click on a place name to get a complete noxious weed list for that location, or click here for a composite list of all Federal and State Noxious Weeds.

Idaho:
yellow toadflax		Noxious weed
Montana:
yellow toadflax		Category 1 noxious weed
Nevada:
yellow toadflax		Noxious weed
New Mexico:
yellow toadflax		Class A noxious weed
Oregon:
yellow toadflax		"B" designated weed
yellow toadflax		Quarantine
South Dakota:
yellow toadflax		Regulated non-native plant species
Washington:
yellow toadflax		Class C noxious weed
Wyoming:
yellow toadflax		Noxious weed

U.S. Weed Information:
Linaria vulgaris Mill.

Jacob's ladder
butter and eggs
flaxweed
ramsted
wild snapdragon
yellow toadflax

This plant can be weedy or invasive according to the authoritative sources noted below. This plant may be known by one or more common names in different places, and some are listed above. Click on an acronym to view each weed list, or click here for a composite list of Weeds of the U.S.

STATE		Assorted authors. 200_. State noxious weed lists for 46 states. State agriculture or natural resource departments.
N'EAST		Uva, R.H., J.C. Neal, & J.M. DiTomaso. 1997. Weeds of the Northeast. Cornell University Press. Ithaca, New York. 397pp.
NE&GP		Stubbendieck, J., G.Y. Friisoe, & M.R. Bolick. 1994. Weeds of Nebraska and the Great Plains. Nebraska Department of Agriculture, Bureau of Plant Industry. Lincoln, Nebraska. 589pp.
WSWS		Whitson, T.D. (ed.) et al. 1996. Weeds of the West. Western Society of Weed Science in cooperation with Cooperative Extension Services, University of Wyoming. Laramie, Wyoming. 630pp.

Introduced Information:
Linaria vulgaris Mill.

This plant is introduced to some part of the PLANTS Floristic Area, though it may be native in other parts. Click on link below for a partial or complete list of PFA introduced plants.

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More Accounts and Images:
Linaria vulgaris Mill.

View photographs from CalPhotos.

View species account from ARS Germplasm Resources Information Network (GRIN).

View taxonomic account from Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS) for ITIS Taxonomic Serial Number 33216.

View species account and distribution map from Jepson Interchange (University of California - Berkeley).

View species account from Native American Ethnobotany (University of Michigan - Dearborn).

View photographs and distribution from University of Tennessee Herbarium.

View photographs and distribution from University of Washington Burke Museum.

View species account and photographs from University of Wisconsin - Stevens Point Freckmann Herbarium.

Related Web Sites:
Linaria vulgaris Mill.

CO-CSU Extension Fact Sheet

CO-Douglas County Weed Education

CalFlora: database occurrence

Idaho One Plan: noxious abstract & images

NV-Extension Weed Wanted Posters

Saskatchewan Agriculture and Food: weed identification

Southwest School of Botanical Medicine: illustration

The Nature Conservancy: Wildland Weeds Management & Research Program

WA-King County Noxious Weeds

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