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butter-and-eggs

or toadflax

Common perennial herbaceous plant (Linaria vulgaris) of the Plantaginaceae family, native to Eurasia and widely naturalized in North America. The plant bears flaxlike leaves and showy yellow and orange flowers that are two-lipped and spurred like snapdragons.

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