Antirrhinum nuttallianum

Island snapdragon

Family: Plantaginaceae · Type: annual · Native

Island snapdragon is a California native annual found in coastal and interior regions, growing in varied habitats from low to moderate elevations. Flowering from March to June, this plant produces lavender to blue-purple flowers with distinctive white blotches and gold hairs in the mouth, creating a delicate 7 to 12 millimeters long bloom. Growing with erect but weak stems that often cling to other plants or debris, it reaches heights typically between 15 to 45 centimeters tall. Its leaves are small and delicate, with ovate blades less than 60 millimeters long, featuring acute tips and short petioles. The plant produces minute cleistogamous white flowers alongside its more showy open blooms, with fruits that are oblique-ovoid and uniquely dehiscent through three pores at the tip.

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

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