Linaria alpina, (L.) Miller

61. L. alpina (L.) Miller , Gard. Diet. ed. 8, no. 4 (1768)

(inch L. petraea Jordan ).

Glaucous annual, biennial or perennial, glabrous, or rarely glandular-hairy in inflorescence; stems 5-25 cm, decumbent or ascending, sometimes branched. Leaves 5-15 x 0-7-1 - 5(-2- 5) mm, linear- to oblong-lanceolate, mostly verticillate. Racemes usually dense, with 3-15 flowers; pedicels 2-5 mm in flower, up to 13 mm in fruit. Calyx 3-5 mm; lobes oblong- to linear-oblanceolate, subobtuse, unequal. Corolla 13-22 mm, violet, usually with a yellow palate (rarely entirely yellow, whitish or pink); spur 8-10 mm. Capsule 3-5 mm. Seeds 1 -7-2- 5 mm, suborbicular, flat, black; disc smooth or tuberculate; wing broad. 2/2= 12. Screes, rocky slopes and river-gravels. • Mountains of C. & S. Europe from the Jura and Carpathians to C. Spain, C. Italy and C. Greece. Al Au Cz Ga Ge GrHeHsItJu Rm.

Plants from N.W. Spain with lax, few-flowered inflorescences and pedicels short in fruit have been called L. filicaulis Boiss. ex Leresche & Levier , Jour. Bot. (London) 17: 200 (1879); they represent an extreme variant of a very variable species and may merit subspecific status.