About Linaria alpina subsp. filicaulis (Leresche & Levier) Lainz
Linaria alpina, sometimes known as alpine toadflax, is a purple-flowered plant in the plantain family Plantaginaceae, which is unrelated to the plantain fruit. It is native to mountainous regions of southern and central Europe. It grows across many mountain ranges in this area, stretching from the Sierra de Gredos and Montes de León in Spain to the mountains of the Balkan Peninsula, and including the Jura Mountains, Alps, Pyrenees, and central Apennine Mountains. It acts as an early colonizer of newly exposed, unconsolidated glacial moraine. Unlike other species in its genus, Linaria alpina typically produces purple flowers with orange central lobes, though the central lobes are also purple in some forms. This entry refers to the subspecies Linaria alpina subsp. filicaulis, with the scientific authority (Leresche & Levier) Lainz.
