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!