Butter-And-Eggs
Description
This section is from the book "Who's Who Among The Wild Flowers", by W. I. Beecroft. Also available from Amazon: A Field Guide to Edible Wild Plants.
Butter-And-Eggs
Yellow Toad Flax: Flax-weed: Brideweed: Eggs and Bacon.
Linaria vulgaris.
Figwort Family. June - Oct.
A plant 1 - 3 feet tall, found in fields, roadsides, waste places. Nova Scotia to Virginia, west to Manitoba and Nebraska. Naturalized from Europe.
Flowers
Yellow and orange, 2-lipped, with a long spur, borne on terminal spikes.
Leaves
Long, narrow, numerous.
Butter-and-eggs.
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