Italian Linaria

Appearance

Perennial plant of 30-60 cm, entirely glabrous; stems erect, strong, simple or sparsely branched, densely leafy; leaves sparse, lanceolate-linear acute, thick, somewhat fleshy, very glaucous; flowers of a beautiful lemon yellow with an orange palate, large, in very tight spike-shaped clusters; bracts linear, reflexed; calyx glabrous, with lanceolate-acute lobes; corolla 16-22 mm, with slightly curved spur as long as it; capsule 4-6 mm, subglobose, 1 time longer than the calyx.

Distribution

Eurasian.

Habitat

It grows in the arid lawns of the mountain and subalpine levels.