DESCRIPTION:

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

OTHER: 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!

We have a variety of individual colors & mixes of Linaria & Antirrhinum seeds!