Antirrhinum coulterianum

Coulter snapdragon

Family: Plantaginaceae · Type: annual · Native

Coulter snapdragon is a California native annual found in southern Coastal Ranges, southwestern California, and the northwestern edge of the Sonoran Desert among shrubs, generally on burned areas at elevations below 2,700 meters. Flowering from April to July, this plant produces white to lavender flowers in racemes with delicate, twining branchlets. Growing with erect but weak stems 12 to 150 centimeters tall that often cling to other plants or debris, it develops an occasional basal rosette. Its leaves are linear to lanceolate, less than 11 centimeters long, with acute to rounded tips and occasional winged petioles up to 3 centimeters. The fruit is 5 to 10 millimeters long with an indehiscent upper chamber containing small black seeds with a netted and ridged surface.

Habitat: Among shrubs in desert, generally on burns elsewhere

Bloom period: Apr-Jul

Elevation: < 2700 m

Bioregions: s SCoRO, SW (exc ChI), nw edge DSon

California counties: Los Angeles, San Diego, Ventura, Riverside, San Bernardino, Orange, Santa Barbara, Nevada

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