Citation: P. Gaertner, B. Meyer & Scherb., Oek.-Tech. Flor. Wett. 2:397 (1800) subsp. muralis.

Synonymy: Antirrhinum cymbalaria L., Sp. Pl. 612 (1753); Linaria cymbalaria (L.)Miller, Gard. Dict. edn 8 (1768). , Cymbalaria muralis

Common name: Ivy-leaf toadflax, Kenilworth ivy.

Description:
Procumbent herb, glabrous apart from a few hairs on young shoots and pedicels, often reddened on branches, petioles and pedicels; leaves with the petiole to 5 cm long, the blade transversely ellipticovate, 0.5-3 x 0.5-3.5 cm, with 5-11 broad teeth, discolorous, dark-green above, grey-green below.

Pedicels 1-6 cm long, about the same length as the petiole and ascending in flower, elongating and bent towards the ground in fruit; sepals 2-2.5 mm long; corolla purple, 6-8.5 mm long along the upper side, glabrous outside, pubescent within the tube on the lower side, with the spur slender, decurved at the tip, 2-3 mm long, with the palate white, with 2 bright-yellow ridges; anthers cohering in pairs, white.

Capsule transverse-oblong, somewhat flattened, c. 3 x 4 mm, glabrous, exceeding the sepals; seeds globose to broad-ellipsoid, 0.6-1 mm long, coarsely tuberculate to coarsely rugose, white to dark-brown.

Published illustration: Butcher (1961) A new illustrated British flora 2:fig. 1025; Ross-Craig (1966) Drawings Brit. Pl. 22:t. 6.

Distribution:  In crevices in walls and shaded gardens; a harmless escape more commonly found in gardens throughout the State than the few specimens seen would indicate. S.Aust.: EP, YP, SL, SE.   W.Aust.; N.S.W.; Vic.; Tas.   Native to Europe and north-west Africa. Conservation status: naturalised Flowering time: recorded Oct. — Jan.

SA Distribution Map based on current data relating to specimens held in the State Herbarium of South Australia

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