As more trees add additional range of colors to the landscape, there are still some fall weeds adding bright color too, like this Butter and Eggs (or Yellow Toadflax) which is an invasive species from Europe.
Pretty Yellow Weed
Picture of the Day for September 30, 2022
The fall flowers are catching some sunshine before the colder weather returns. Yellow Toadflax or Butter-and-Eggs is another invasive species native to Europe, Siberia and Central Asia which has spread and common now in North America.
Yellow Toadflax
Picture of the Day for November 12, 2021
A few late hardy flowers, like these butter-and-eggs, have survived the frozen night temperatures, but they were getting hit with more snowflakes today and might get covered in snow tomorrow night.
Late Butter-and-Eggs
Picture of the Day for September 7, 2020
The sun was able to shine on this flower for a time in the morning before the rain moved in. It is a later blooming plant, even into October, so it is more noticeable in the fall as the other flowers tamper off. It is not a native flower and is considered an invasive weed which has several dozen different names for it. The names I am used to is butter-and-eggs, wild snapdragon and yellow toadflax but some other interesting names are calf’s snout, dead men’s bones, bunny haycocks and impudent lawyer.
Butter-and-Eggs Blossom
Picture of the Day for September 19, 2018
The drizzle and fog hung around all day so it wasn’t bright and sunny out although the Yellow Toadflax (or Butter and Eggs) do add a little yellow sunshine even on a cloudy day. But these wildflowers are not native to the area and are considered an invasive species but they are pretty.
Yellow Toadflax
Picture of the Day for August 12, 2017
It seems that a majority of the wildflowers found around my area in the late summer are yellow in color, including the invasive species Yellow Toadflax introduced from Europe, also known as Butter and Eggs.
Butter and Eggs
Picture of the Day for July 14, 2015
These wildflowers are usually provide the last color before winter sets in, so I hope that doesn’t mean winter is approaching fast with them blooming now. The Butter-and-eggs, or yellow toadflax, is another flower introduced from Europe which is now common in North America and considered a weed which has a lot of other names including bunny mouths, calf’s snout, dead men’s bone, wild snapdragon and about 30 other names.
Butter-and-Eggs by the Pond
Picture of the Day for October 24, 2012
It is getting harder to find bright colors as the fall continues its march to winter but occasionally some yellow dandelions or other yellow flowers might be spotted like these Butter-and-eggs also known as Common Toadflax or Yellow Toadflax. While native to Europe and other parts of the world, the Butter-and-eggs were not native to North America but have been introduced and now very common along roads ditches and disturbed lands and is considered as a weed, although sometimes cultivated for cut flowers and used in folk medicine for a variety of ailments.
Because this plant grows as a weed, it has acquired a large number of local names, including brideweed, bridewort, butter and eggs, butter haycocks, bread and butter, bunny haycocks, bunny mouths, calf’s snout, Continental weed, dead men’s bones, devil’s flax, devil’s flower, doggies, dragon bushes, eggs and bacon, false flax, flaxweed, fluellen, gallweed, gallwort, impudent lawyer, Jacob’s ladder, lion’s mouth, monkey flower, North American ramsted, rabbit flower, rancid, ransted, wild flax, wild snapdragon, wild tobacco, and yellow rod.
Like snapdragons (Antirrhinum), they are often grown in children’s gardens for the “snapping” flowers which resembles the face of a dragon that opens and closes its mouth when laterally squeezed thus the flower ‘snaps’ or ‘talks’.
Butter and Eggs
