This is a neat little plant to grow in a sunny well drained site in the front of the border or the rock garden. It will even be happy in open shade. It has been a very popular plant in British gardens for quite a long time. The long, slender vertical stems can reach up to three feet high and the plant forms a nice clump of up to one foot in diameter. Linaria purpurea prefers a sunny location in the garden and has average water requirements.
Foliage is a lovely, ferny, narrow greyish-green.
This plant is long blooming and variable, white to pink and purple flowers occur during the summer. Bearing the common name Toadflax, Linaria purpurea is one of about a hundred or so species in the genus Linaria in the Scrophulariaceae family. This particular species is native to Southern Europe. This plant can self-sow very easily, but I would not consider it invasive in the least. Color selections can be made from your seedlings and the British have named at least one cultivar that I know of, 'Canon J. Went', which has light pink flowers.