But since we were there two months after the peak blooming season, we were lucky to spot even a few of the indigenous beauties, like the tiny, deep blue Zois'Bellflower _ a symbol of Slovenia _ and the exotic violet and orange Alpine toadflax, amid the grasses and edelweiss.
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The site is a narrow strip of land between the Frays River and the Shire Ditch, and it was formerly a railway embankment on the birds-foot trefoil and small toadflax, and there are mammals such as the rare Brandt's bat, as well as stoats, weasels and moles.
Among the plants deer often resist are artemisia, dill, lavender, mint, rosemary, Russian sage, salvia, scented geraniums, tansy, thyme, yarrow, snapdragons, toadflax, foxgloves, delphiniums, larkspurs, black-eyed Susans, alyssum, lamb's ears, daffodils, bearded iris, anemones, alliums and poppies.
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While e . g . common toadflax ( " Linaria vulgaris " ) is credited with a range of uses by European herbalists, as of the 2010s, little scientific study has been made and the traditionally attested medical properties of the Antirrhineae are by and large unremarkable by standards of the Plantaginaceae, which abound with species of major pharmacological interest.
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The readiness with which " A . majus " flower colour and shape mutate and can be crossbred has led to the establishments of unusual ( e . g . peloric ) cultivars, as well as to making this species one of the first model organisms of genetics and helping invasive nuisance weed in agriculture, like other toadflaxes and snapdragons, its attractive flowers make it useful as a wildflower.
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The erratic behavior of the two genera was noted by Vargas " et al " but not discussed in Fern�ndez-Mazuecos " et al . "; adding to the confusion, Ghebrehiwet " et al " found a strongly supported " Galvezia fruticosa "-" Gambelia speciosa " clade excluding " Pseudorontium " and " Schweinfurthia " and equidistant from the true snapdragons and toadflaxes, entirely in line with Rothmaler's Gambeliinae.
