Another ident one, might be weed?

[mellysam]

Hello everyone, I hope you can help me identify a plant, in the picture the one with purple and pink flowers.
Its quite tall and comes up every year (this is the first time i've seen pink flowers though). It grows all over the place, even in the gravel on our drive. When it goes over if you touch it the seeds pop all over the place.
Any ideas?

[shovetheholly]

Toadflax!

[mellysam]

Amazing thank you!!

[MarklahMarklah]

I nabbed some recently when the council cleared a footpath. Bees are loving it!

[shovetheholly]

Some people see it as a weed. I guess it spreads - but it's also dropdead gorgeous in the right place. I have a patch in my front garden that I'm trying to get seeds off but every year the postman treads on it just at the critical moment.

Still, he's a lovely postman so I can't really complain.

[Kr1stina]

Ah! We call that railway weed . I wondered what you all meant by toad flax.

And you call that stinky wee geranium with the pink flowers ' herb Robert ' ?

Always a school day on MN

[JT05]

Loads of it in my garden and I love it! It moves around, popping up in unexpected place. Very cottage garden.

[Ferguson]

Toadflax comes in many different varieties:

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linaria_vulgaris

And Kr1stina , by 'railway weed' do you mean commonly found beside railways? In the UK, in the early days of railways, I think many plants became distributed from being 'sucked along' by the draught from trains.