Antirrhinum cornutum

Spurred snapdragon

Family: Plantaginaceae · Type: annual · Native

Spurred snapdragon is a California native annual found in the Klamath Ranges, northern Coast Ranges, western Cascades, and northern Sacramento Valley in dry stream margins and disturbed areas, often on serpentine, at elevations below 1,220 meters. Flowering from June to August, this plant produces white flowers with violet veins, the corolla 9 to 11 millimeters long with a swollen lower lip covered in dense cylindrical hairs. Growing with erect, self-supporting stems 6 to 40 centimeters tall and glandular-hairy throughout, it has a distinctive appearance. Its leaves are linear to oblanceolate, 7 to 43 millimeters long, with petioles up to 12 millimeters and obtuse to rounded tips. The fruit is 5 to 6 millimeters long with unequal chambers, the upper chamber remaining indehiscent.

Habitat: Uncommon. Dry stream margins, disturbed areas, often on serpentine

Bloom period: Jun-Aug

Elevation: < 1220 m

Bioregions: KR, NCoRI, w CaR, n ScV.

California counties: Mendocino, Butte, Shasta, Lake, Sonoma, Napa, Tehama, Trinity, Nevada, Glenn, Siskiyou, Fresno, Plumas, Colusa, Sacramento

Data from The California Species Project — 14,000+ California species with verified data from CNPS, CDFW, USFWS, Jepson eFlora, Cal-IPC, and more.