Yellow flower ID

[Hedge Witch]

Hi all,

Please help me ID this lovely little flower found on the edge of a path in Rye Meads Nature Reserve today.



It's missing from my book , so any help appreciated.

Thanks in advance!

[wildlifesnapper]

Hi

it's Common Toadflax

neil

[Hedge Witch]

Hi Neil, thanks for the quick reply!

I looked and it wasn't missing, just completely unrecognizable from the book's picture.

[Pete Collins]

Yes, Common Toadflax.

I think a few people must have the same book as you, Hedge Witch, as it comes up for ID on this forum quite often! A lovely flower, one of my favourites.

[Hedge Witch]

Hi (or should that be "high" ) Pete,

Yes, the inflorescence is often portrayed as a lot larger, without the leafy tip.

My original picture (before uploading to the WAB Gallery) is a little better, the colours more vivid with lovely detail on each flower. A beautiful thing to behold.

Thanks for the reassurance that more than one person gets confused.

[leifus]

common toadflax

[Jim Ford]

Toadflax and Snapdragons look and work the same, but I believe they're unrelated. An example of convergent evolution.

Jim

[Hedge Witch]

Thanks everyone for your help and any extra info.

This is definitely the place to come for an ID.

Cheers.

[aeshna5]

Originally Posted by Jim Ford

Toadflax and Snapdragons look and work the same, but I believe they're unrelated. An example of convergent evolution.

Jim

They are both in the same family- Scrophulariaceae- so in fact from the same lineage, so not really convergent evolution.

[KeenTeen17]

maybe the garden cultivars did cross bred a few things with common toadflax to get snapdragons.