Was very generally cultivated in our gardens in the times of Gerard and Parkinson.
Like most alpine plants, it requires a pure air, and succeeds best in a situation moderately moist and shady; is a hardy perennial, and may be increased by parting its roots in autumn.
In all seasons, with us, its foliage, as well as that of most other Crowfoots, is liable to be disfigured, and sometimes nearly destroyed, by a very small maggot which feeds betwixt, the coats of the leaf, and which ultimately produces a small fly, called by us Musca Ranunculi.
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Antirrhinum Alpinum. Alpine Toad-Flax.
Class and Order.
Didynamia Angiospermia.
Generic Character.
Cal. 5-phyllus. Cor. basis deorsum prominens, nectarifera. Caps. 2-locularis.