Seasonal Wild Flowers

Latin name

Chaenorhinum minus

Family

Scrophulariaceae

Flowering season

June to October

English distribution

It is found throughout the country..

See the BSBI distribution map for Small Toadflax

Habitat

It is an archeophyte which grows on calcareous arable

fields, waste ground, walls and by railways..

Description

Small Toadflax is an annual, grey, erect, glandular herb,

growing up to 25cm.

Flowers are small at up up to 8mm, solitary and in the

axils of the  leaves.

The upper part of the flower is purple and the inner

parts of the flower are pale.

The mouth of the corolla is slightly open and there is

a short spur.

The seed capsule is ovoid.

Leaves are up to 2.5cm, alternate, glandular and linear

lanceolate.

Stems are hairy and glandular.