Linaria canadensis




Family Plantaginaceae (also placed in Scrophulariaceae; Veronicaceae)
Tribe Antirrhineae
Scientific name Linaria canadensis (L.) Chazelles de Prizy
Synonyms Anarrhinum canadense (L.) Poiret; Antirrhinum canadense L.; Antirrhinum canadense L. var. assurgens Rafinesque; Linaria canadensis (L.) Chazelles de Prizy forma cleistogama Fernald; Nuttallanthus canadensis (L.) D. A. Sutton
Common name (Japanese common name) matsu-ba un-ran (マツバウンラン, 松葉海蘭 [meaning: pine leaved coastal orchid])
(English common name) blue toadflax, Canada toadflax, oldfield toadflax, toadflax
Distribution (Japan) Honshu (west of Kanto region), Shikoku, Kyushu
(Other nations) [native] Canada, USA
Habitat Fields, roadside
Chromosomal number 2n=12
Description Plants 30-60cm tall. Leaves 1-3cm long, 0.3-1mm wide. Flowers purple corollas 4mm, flowering in April to May. Winter annual plants.
Reference Linaria canadensis (L.)Chaz.
Nuttallanthus canadensis (L.) D. A. Sutton
Nuttallanthus canadensis (L.) D. A. Sutton
Expression of foreign genes using a replicating polyprotein producing virus vector (US Patent 5491076/1996)
Polynucleotides and polypeptides that confer increased biomass and tolerance to cold, water deprivation and low nitrogen to plants (US Patent 7196245/2007)
Note Naturalized plants (first discovered at Kyoto in 1941)



April 2007
at open field
April 2007
at open field
April 2007
at open field