Linaria thymifolia, (Vahl) DC.

Tutin, T. G., Heywood, V. H., Burges, N. A., Moore, D. M., Valentine, D. H., Walters, S. M. & Webb, D. A., 1972, Flora Europaea. Volume 3. Diapensiacea to Myoporaceae, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press : 233

46. L. thymifolia (Vahl) DC. in Lam. & DC., Fl. Fr. ed. 3, 3: 587 (1805).

Glaucous, glabrous annual, biennial or perennial; stems 6-30 cm, procumbent to suberect, numerous, usually freely branched. Leaves 3-15 x 1 - 5-10 mm, suborbicular-obovate to oblong, obtuse, somewhat fleshy, mostly in whorls of 3. Racemes subcapitate, with few, subsessile flowers. Calyx 4-5 mm; lobes broadly oblanceolate to oblong, unequal. Corolla 17-24 mm, yellow; tube with closed mouth; spur 7-11 mm. Capsule 5-6 mm, globose. Seeds 2-4-3 - 3 mm, suborbicular, concavo-convex; disc black, smooth; wing broad, black. Maritime sands. • W. coast of France, northwards to 46°N. Ga.