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§1 Plant — species · Scrophulariaceae

Linaria vulgaris Mill.

vernacular butter and eggs


USDA
LIVU2
GBIF
5415020
Rank
species
butter and eggs (Linaria vulgaris)
Platephotograph · Maja DumatCC BY source · iNaturalist ↗

§2Habit & range

Habit and range

Growth habit
Forb/herb
Duration
Perennial
Group
Dicot
Family
Scrophulariaceae Juss.
Genus
Linaria
§2a

Native status, by region

  • AK Alaska Introduced
  • CAN Canada Introduced
  • GL Greenland Introduced
  • L48 Lower 48 States Introduced
  • SPM St. Pierre & Miquelon Introduced

§3Cultivation

No cultivation specs.

USDA has not characterised this taxon. Roughly four out of five plants in the database lack the detailed cultivation record present here — typically because they have not been the focus of NRCS Plant Materials work. Range and distribution data are unaffected.


§4Montana distribution

Recorded in 39 of 56 Montana counties.


§5Sources & provenance

USDA PLANTS

Symbol, taxonomy, distribution, cultivation specs, native status. Public domain.

plants.usda.gov/LIVU2 ↗

GBIF Backbone

Canonical taxonomic identity, synonym resolution, cross-refs. CC0.

gbif.org/species/5415020 ↗

Record version

Cached and built locally. Source version on this record:

usda-plants-mt-2026-05-25

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