toadflax
Butter-and-eggs plant
Toadflax is a flowering plant with spurred blossoms resembling small snapdragons.
The common yellow toadflax, also called butter-and-eggs, grows wild along roadsides throughout North America and Europe.
The name likely comes from the plant's wide, flax-like leaves and the flower's fancied resemblance to a toad's mouth.
Flower with jaw-like petals
- herbaceousHaving soft green stems
- perennialRecurring each year
- spurredDriven to act
- biennialEvery second year
Scrophulariaceae · genus · species · morphology · nomenclature · classification · taxonomy · systematics
Grassy field for grazing
- bloomFlower or flourishing state
- nectarFloral sugar water
- pollinationFlower reproductive transfer
- beesWinged pollinators
butterflies · pollinators · prairie · field · hedgerow · roadside · native · wild
Uninvited plant
- non-nativeNot indigenous here
- spreadTo distribute widely
- infestationPest takeover situation
- colonizeEstablish control over territory
aggressive · outcompete · eradication · control · biocontrol · displacement · noxious · rhizomatous
Fostering growth through care
- rockeryLandscaped stone arrangement
- borderOuter edge or limit
- sowingPlanting for cultivation
- propagationAct of spreading widely
self-seeding · bedding · transplanting · perennials · annuals · cottage garden · ornamental · cut flowers
snapdragon
Flower with jaw-like petals
- herbaceousHaving soft green stems
- perennialRecurring each year
- spurredDriven to act
Scrophulariaceae · biennial · genus · species · morphology · nomenclature · classification · taxonomy · systematics · specimen
meadow
Grassy field for grazing
- bloomFlower or flourishing state
- nectarFloral sugar water
- pollinationFlower reproductive transfer
bees · butterflies · pollinators · prairie · field · hedgerow · roadside · native · wild · naturalized
weed
Uninvited plant
- non-nativeNot indigenous here
- spreadTo distribute widely
- infestationPest takeover situation
colonize · aggressive · outcompete · eradication · control · biocontrol · displacement · noxious · rhizomatous · persistent
cultivation
Fostering growth through care
propagation · self-seeding · bedding · transplanting · perennials · annuals · cottage garden · ornamental · cut flowers · drought-tolerant
- folk herbsagrimony, betony, borage, burdock, comfrey
- host plantsmilkweed, nettle, nettles, passionflower, pipevine
- figwortsfigwort, speedwell, foxglove, snapdragon, mullein
- toadflax
- Plant Nicknamesbaby's breath, bachelor's button, black-eyed Susan, bleeding heart, buttercup