Detail of cut to white illustration of #Purpletoadflax Linaria purpurea, showing a portion of the flowering stem with seed heads as well as the distinctive flowers which have a wide lower lip, two lower side lips, a bilobed upper lip, and a "tail", all of which are a deep blue purple. #sciart
Detail of cut to white illustration of #Purpletoadflax Linaria purpurea, showing a portion of the vegetative stem. Leaves are linear, and in a turret. Upper leaves are a bright yellow green, lower ones a blue green.
Full illustration and detail of cut to white illustration of #Purpletoadflax Linaria purpurea, showing flowring stem with deep purple flowers. vegetative stem with yellowish top and blueinsh lower leaves, and a close up of the distinctively shaped bilateral and lobed purple flowers.
This is Purple #toadflax #Linaria purpurea, it's a common enough plant, but one that benefits from a closer look.
Like most wild flowers, the closer you look, the more amazing details and structure, not to mention nuances of colour, you see.
#purple ##linariapurpurea #botanicalillustration#
