Antirrhinum filipes

Tangled snapdragon

Family: Plantaginaceae · Type: annual · Native

Tangled snapdragon is a California native annual found in the South Coast and Transverse Ranges in washes and shrubby areas at elevations up to 1,650 meters. Flowering from March to May, this plant produces delicate yellow and gold flowers with maroon flecks on the lower lip, approximately 10 to 13 millimeters long. Growing with vine-like, climbing stems 9 to 100 centimeters tall that are woolly at the base, it has a distinctive climbing habit. Its leaves range from 6 to 50 millimeters long, varying from linear to ovate, with upper leaves becoming linear and sessile. The fruit is a small spherical capsule 3 to 5 millimeters long, which bursts irregularly on its sides to release tiny black seeds.

Habitat: On shrubs, debris, generally in washes

Bloom period: Mar-May

Elevation: < 1650 m

Bioregions: D

California counties: San Bernardino, Imperial, Kern, Inyo, San Diego, Riverside

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