Antirrhinum nuttallianum subsp. subsessile

Family: Plantaginaceae · Type: annual · Native

Nuttall's snapdragon is a California native annual found in southern coastal California, including the southern Coast Ranges, southern California coast, and Channel Islands, in stabilized coastal dunes and rocky areas at elevations below 1,300 meters. Flowering from March to August, this plant produces flowers with a distinctive lavender and white color pattern, featuring a white blotch on the lower corolla lip interrupted by lavender tones. Growing 6 to 90 centimeters tall with sparse to moderately dense coarse hairs, the plant has stems with enlarged hair tips and opposite leaves at the lower nodes. Its leaves are small, less than 40 millimeters long, with petioles shorter than 14 millimeters, and occur at each one-leaved node along the stem. The fruit is 3 to 11 millimeters long, with seed ridges that are broken into longitudinal or unpatterned fragments.

Habitat: Stabilized coastal dunes, rocky or disturbed areas

Bloom period: Mar-Aug

Elevation: < 1300 m

Bioregions: s CCo, SCo, ChI

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

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