Some Linaria

I have tried in recent years to recognise the four or five different types of Linaria ("toadflax" or "butter&eggs") that grow around here. But this one, growing volunteer-fashion in a neglected flowerbox outside my back door, stymied me.

A local botanist tells me it is a very restricted hybrid, one that has only been reported within a couple of kilometres of my back door.

Nice.

It is leaning, by the way, up against the stem of one of those volunteer poppies.