RHS Other common names
bread and butter, brideweed, bridewort, butter and eggs, butter haycocks, continental weed, dragon bushes, eggs and bacon, eggs and butter, false flax, flaxweed, gallweed, gallwort, imprudent lawyer, impudent lawyer, Jacob's ladder, lion's mouth, North American ramsted, rancid, ransted, wild flax, wild snapdragon, yellow rod, yellow toadflax, llin y lyffant
Synonyms
Antirrhinum linaria
Herbaceous Perennial
An erect perennial, spreading by runners, with stiff stems bearing narrow, pale green leaves that are arranged in a spiral. The pale yellow flowers, resembling small snapdragons in dense spikes, appear from late spring to mid-autumn
Position
Full sun
Soil Types
Loam, Sand
Max Height
0.1-0.5 metres
Max Spread
0.1-0.5 metres