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Definition of Blue toadflax
1. Noun. North American plant having racemes of blue-violet flowers.
Generic synonyms: Butter-and-eggs, Devil's Flax, Linaria Vulgaris, Toadflax, Wild Snapdragon
Lexicographical Neighbors of Blue Toadflax
Literary usage of Blue toadflax
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. How to Know the Wild Flowers: A Guide to the Names, Haunts, and Habits of by Frances Theodora Parsons (1895)
"Stamens.—Many. During the summer, in wet meadows, we notice the nodding flowers
of the water avens. BLUE LINARIA. blue toadflax. ..."
2. Familiar Flowers of Field and Garden by Ferdinand Schuyler Mathews (1895)
"Wild blue toadflax. There is another, blue-colored wild Linaria Canade,isis.
toadflax, common in the Middle States though rarely found down East, ..."
3. Guidebook of the Western United States by Joseph Silas Diller (1916)
"... blue toadflax shines out. In Seattle 296 miles. June the bright blue, purple,
or white chicory, the pink Near Junction City fields of grain and hay ..."
4. An Arrangement of British Plants: According to the Latest Improvements of by William Withering (1830)
"We heve received this species from different Botanists, and gathered on the same
spot, with both appellations. E.) (CREEPING PALE-blue toadflax. A. repens. ..."
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