Help on identifying this purple flower please.

Lancashire Lad · #1 (**permalink**) 23-09-2008, 07:23 PM

Could anyone help identify this please?

Photo taken today 23 Sept.

Roadside verge nr. Whalley (Lancashire).

Overall height of plant was about 60-70cm.
Top of the plant, above what shows in the photo, had gone-over, and was a single spike that looked dry, grey & "seedy".
( Should've took another photo

).

Regards
Mike.

leifus · #2 (**permalink**) 23-09-2008, 07:36 PM

in my eyes a garden escape but id go with the pea family....

ceterach · #3 (**permalink**) 23-09-2008, 07:44 PM

Hi

I think Purple Toadflax Linaria purpurea, a small lateral spike on as you say a dying plant. The colour is a bit glary (is that a word!!?)!

All the best

leifus · #4 (**permalink**) 23-09-2008, 08:06 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by ceterach

Hi

I think Purple Toadflax Linaria purpurea, a small lateral spike on as you say a dying plant. The colour is a bit glary (is that a word!!?)!

All the best

yeah it is

KeenTeen17 · #5 (**permalink**) 23-09-2008, 08:30 PM

purple toadflax

Lancashire Lad · #6 (**permalink**) 23-09-2008, 08:39 PM

Thanks guys.

I was thinking purple toadflax, but I didn't notice the long spur that each individual flower should have at the rear.

(Mind you I did nearly get run over by a lunatic speeding round the bend on the very narrow road when I was taking the pic. - kind of focuses your attention on other things that does).

On looking more closely at my photo though, I can see a couple of these spurs, so purple toadflax it definitely is.

Regards
Mike.