Linaria maroccana Hook.f.

Taprooted annual; stems erect, sometimes much-branched, to c. 40 cm tall. Vegetative parts glabrous. Lvs 1.5–4 cm long, narrow-linear, green; apex ± obtuse. Infl. many-flowered, glabrous or glandular-puberulent; fls in rather lax and elongated racemes. Bracts 3–5–(10) mm long, linear to lanceolate, 1/4–3/4 length of pedicels. Calyx 4–6 mm long, lobed almost to base; lobes lanceolate or linear-lanceolate, usually glandular-hairy, occasionally glabrous, acute or acuminate. Corolla 25–30 mm long (including slender, straight, acute spur c. 15 mm long), usually crimson or purplish, sometimes pale yellow to orange, pink, or bicoloured, except for yellow or orange, puberulent pouch; upper lip 10–15 mm long. Capsule 3–5 mm diam., globose. Seeds 1.7–1.9 mm long, curved, wingless, black, strongly ribbed.

[From: Webb et al. (1988) Flora of New Zealand. Volume 4.]

Flowering: Oct.–Feb.