Linaria vulgaris

Butter-and-eggs

Family: Plantaginaceae · Type: perennial · Not Native

Conservation status: Cal-IPC Yes

Butter-and-eggs is a naturalized perennial herb found in coastal, northern California, and interior regions including the northern Sierra Nevada, Sacramento Valley, central western California, and southern California coast at elevations up to 2,150 meters in disturbed areas. Flowering from June to August, this plant produces yellow flowers with an orange-hairy lower lip, forming dense racemes approximately 18 to 32 millimeters long. Growing with ascending to erect stems 30 to 100 centimeters tall, it develops simple or occasionally branched green stems. Its leaves are crowded, narrow and linear, measuring 25 to 50 millimeters long, and ranging from glabrous to sparsely soft-shaggy-hairy. The plant produces small flat, winged seeds about 1.5 millimeters in size within fruits 9 to 12 millimeters long.

Habitat: Disturbed areas

Bloom period: Jun-Aug

Elevation: < 2150 m

Bioregions: NCo, KR, NCoRO, CaRH, n SN, ScV, CW (exc SCoRI), SCo, MP

California counties: Mendocino, Monterey, Marin, Humboldt, El Dorado, Plumas, Modoc, Nevada, Placer, Tehama, Del Norte, Siskiyou, Alameda, Sonoma, Butte, San Luis Obispo, Santa Barbara, Sierra

Data from The California Species Project — 14,000+ California species with verified data from CNPS, CDFW, USFWS, Jepson eFlora, Cal-IPC, and more.