Antirrhinum kingii

King's snapdragon

Family: Plantaginaceae · Type: annual · Native

King's snapdragon is a California native annual herb found on the eastern slope of the Sierra Nevada Mountains in Kern County, the Sierra Nevada and Mojave Desert Mountains, particularly in northeastern San Bernardino County, in rocky washes and scree at elevations of 500 to 2,300 meters. Flowering from April to July, this plant produces white flowers with delicate violet veins approximately 5 to 7 millimeters long. Growing with erect but weak stems 3 to 45 centimeters tall that often cling to other plants or debris, it has a generally glabrous appearance. Its narrow leaves are sessile, ranging from 2 to 35 millimeters long and varying from linear to elliptic in shape. The fruit is a small oblique-ovoid to spherical capsule 3 to 4.5 millimeters long, with chambers that dehisce through one or two pores at the tip.

Habitat: Uncommon. Washes, scree

Bloom period: Apr-Jul

Elevation: 500-2300 m

Bioregions: e slope SNH (Kern Co.), SNE, DMtns (esp ne San Bernardino Co.)

California counties: San Bernardino, Inyo, Kern, Mono

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