Honeysuckle

This time of year I regularly see three varieties of Linaria in bloom, feeding bumblebees. This is the old-fashioned one, the only one I remember from my childhood when we would pick the flowers out, bite off the point, and suck the "honey" from the horn.

Thus we called it Honeysuckle. I was an adult before I started hearing people call it Butter-and-eggs, though I know now it's a widespread name. And then I heard people calling it Toadflax. I still think of it as Honeysuckle. And, yeah, I know that name, Honeysuckle, is used for some other plants.

This is the Yellow toadflax. Another variety is very bluish though more white than blue. And a third appears to be a cross between the two. I never noticed either of the two non-yellow varieties until I was in my fifties.

This was this afternoon and the late summer sun was getting lower in the sky.