Linaria maroccana

Annuals, not reproducing vegetatively by stolons. Fertile stems erect, 7–70 cm; sterile stems to 13.5 cm. Leaves of fertile stems: blade linear, flat, 5–35 × 1–5 mm, apex acute or subobtuse. Racemes 1–41-flowered, lax or dense, rachis glandular-hairy, hairs 0.1–0.7 mm; bracts linear to lanceolate, 4–9 × 0.5–2 mm. Pedicels erect, 4–9 mm in flower, 5–13 mm in fruit. Calyx lobes lanceolate or linear-lanceolate, 3–4.5 × 1–2 mm in flower, 3.5–6 × 1–2.5 mm in fruit, apex acute or subacute. Corollas purple or red, with yellow or red palate, 22–29 mm; tube 2–3.5 mm wide, spurs straight or curved, 12–17 mm, longer than rest of corolla, abaxial lip sinus 1–2 mm, adaxial lip sinus 3–6 mm. Styles 2-fid; stigma with 2 discrete areas. Capsules oblong, 4–6 × 3–5.2 mm, glabrous or sparsely glandular-pubescent; loculi subequal to unequal. Seeds dark gray to black, reniform or trigonous-pyriform, 0.5–0.7 × 0.3–0.5 mm, with ± conspicuous transverse ridges; wing absent. 2n = 12 (Africa).

Water sparingly, allowing the mix to nearly dry out between watering.

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