Participant Info

Species

Linaria vulgaris

Family

Plantaginaceae

CommonName

toadflax, butter-and-eggs

Presence

YES

Status

exotic, noxious

EarliestDate

1986

LatestDate

2021

Ecosystem

shrubland, foothill, montane, ruderal, urban

Geobotanical

Garitas, SSanjuans, NCristos

Counties

Alamosa, Conejos, Costilla, Hinsdale, Mineral, Rio Grande, Saguache

Passes

WildlifePreserves

Big Meadows Reservoir

Other Localities

Del Norte

PhotoRecords

YES Rich Haswell: Mineral Co, Willow Creek above Creede, along old mining road 2 Aug 2021

Comments

This exotic has naturalized and everywhere in the Watershed can be found in the wild—forest clearings and high montane meadows—as well as in shrubland fields, alley ways, road sides, and back yards. As with many exotics, Linaria vulgaris is probably under-reported. It is on Colorado's B list of "noxious weeds." It is recorded from every state in the USA, and it follows the Rio Grande drainage down to Otero Co, New Mexico but no farther.

Annotation