Description
Blue Toadflax is native to US & Canada. They like dry sandy soil & sun. They can be grown in beds, containers, rock gardens, or naturalized in grasslands. This Toadflax has a wonderfully long bloom period of 2 - 3 months with flowers blooming in spikes over top of the foliage. The plants stalks & stems have a reddish stems, providing a lovely contrast to the blue violet flowers. The flowers provide nectar for bees like honey bees & bumble bees & well as butterflies. It is also a host plant for the Common Buckeye Butterfly. These biennial plants will reseed for blooms the following year!
NAME: Blue Toadflax
OTHER COMMON NAMES: Canada Toadflax
SCIENTIFIC NAME: Linaria Canadensis syn. Nuttallanthus Canadensis / Antirrhinum Canadense
COLOR: Blue-Violet with White Throats
PLANT SEEDS: Outdoors after frost / Indoors weeks before last frost
BLOOM TIME: May - Aug
HARDINESS ZONE: 4 - 8 (Biennial)
PLANT HEIGHT: 9 - 18"
PLANT SPACING: 6 - 9"
LIGHT REQUIREMENTS: Sun
SOIL & WATER PREFERENCES: Average - Dry
QUANTITY: 100 Seeds
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