Toadflax

I think at the very least you should have got some yellow flowers - I understand the Toadflax has yellow flowers and likes wasteland.

Big Investment Decision. Glyn Davies 2007

The stems of the Red Valerian are tall and upright; those of the Toadflax are slender and drooping.

Wildflowers of the Farm Arthur Owens Cooke

Neither the Toadflax nor the Red Valerian are really natives of England.

Wildflowers of the Farm Arthur Owens Cooke

In my own garden, however, the ivy-leaved Toadflax grows on some very dry old walls, and I have found it in flower in the middle of December.

Wildflowers of the Farm Arthur Owens Cooke

An old distich says of the Toadflax as compared with the

Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure William Thomas Fernie

Red Valerian, the Toadflax, and most other flowers; they are very thick and fleshy -- something like a short round pointed stick.

Wildflowers of the Farm Arthur Owens Cooke

We saw, you remember, that the ivy-leaved Toadflax on the wall by the foldyard steps sent out fresh roots from its stems as it grew.

Wildflowers of the Farm Arthur Owens Cooke

The Toadflax has a faint disagreeable smell, and a bitter saline taste.

Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure William Thomas Fernie

Toadflax and arabis climb over the old garden walls: one little house looks as if its walls were held together by coils of wistaria.

Highways and Byways in Surrey Eric Parker 1912

• The most effective way to control Yellow Toadflax is with an approved herbicide.

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