Botanical Name: Linaria purpurea ‘Canon Went’
Common Name: Purple toadflax
Type of Plant: dicot: perennial
Character evergreen
 
Habit of Growth:
Overall Shape wispy upright plants with fine texture, narrow foliage with slender, airy racemes of pink flowers held high above foliage
Height to 3'
Spread to 1'
Growth Rate moderate
 
Environment:
Exposure outdoors full sun to part shade
Soil tolerates most any soil
Hardiness hardy – all zones
 
Morphology:
Leaves linear, blue green to 1-1/2" long, whorled at base, opposite further up stem
Flowers small pink bell-shaped flowers arranged in terminal racemes
Fruit small capsule
 
Propagation:
seed
 
Usage:
perennial beds for spikes of pink flowers, use in masses or drifts for best effects; good for meadow effects, temperate style garden areas works well in pastel color schemes
 
Landscape Care:
Watering takes average water, not fussy about care
Fertilizing balance in spring
Pruning head back hard in fall to induce new shoots in spring
Pests/Diseases none
 
Origin: Italy
Family: Scrophulariaceae

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