Antirrhinum ovatum

Oval-leaved snapdragon, oval-leaved snapdragon, oval-leaved snapdragon

Family: Plantaginaceae · Type: annual · Native

Conservation status: CNPS 4.2

Oval-leaved snapdragon is a California native annual found in southern San Joaquin Valley (especially western Kern and eastern San Luis Obispo counties), southern Coast Ranges, and western Transverse Ranges in heavy adobe-clay soils on gentle, open slopes at elevations of 200 to 1,400 meters. Flowering from May to July, this plant produces cream-colored flowers with pink tints, 17 to 20 millimeters long, featuring a unique throat with two longitudinal folds. Growing with erect but weak stems 8 to 60 centimeters tall that often cling to other plants or debris, it has a glandular-hairy texture. Its leaves are lanceolate to obovate, 4 to 49 millimeters long, with petioles up to 15 millimeters, arranged along the delicate stems. The fruit is an oblique-ovoid capsule 7 to 10 millimeters long, containing small black, ridged seeds about 1 millimeter in size.

Habitat: Heavy, adobe-clay soils on gentle, open slopes, also disturbed areas

Bloom period: May-Jul

Elevation: 200-1400 m

Bioregions: s SnJV (esp w Kern, e San Luis Obispo cos.), s SCoRI, w WTR.

California counties: San Luis Obispo, Ventura, Monterey, Kern, San Benito, Santa Barbara

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