Antirrhinum thompsonii

Chaparral snapdragon

Family: Plantaginaceae · Type: perennial · Native

Chaparral snapdragon is a California native perennial found in northern Sierra Nevada foothills, southern San Francisco Bay Area, southern Coast Ranges, northern Channel Islands, Transverse Ranges, and Peninsular Ranges in rocky or disturbed areas at elevations below 2,200 meters. Flowering from April to August and occasionally in October to November, this plant produces pale pink to red flowers with tan-brown areas on the lower lip, approximately 13 to 18 millimeters long. Growing with erect, self-supporting stems 30 to 150 centimeters tall, often emerging from a woody base and densely covered in sticky, glandular hairs. Its leaves are sessile, measuring 8 to 63 millimeters long, ranging from linear to lanceolate with acute to obtuse tips. The fruit is an oblique-ovoid capsule 7 to 11 millimeters long, uniquely dehiscent through three pores at the tip.

Habitat: Rocky or disturbed areas, burns

Bloom period: Apr-Aug (Oct--Nov)

Elevation: < 2200 m

Bioregions: n SNF (Calaveras Co.), s SnFrB, SCoR, n ChI, TR, PR.

California counties: Kern, Orange, Los Angeles, Santa Barbara, San Bernardino, Ventura, Monterey, Calaveras, Santa Cruz, Santa Clara, Tuolumne, San Benito, San Luis Obispo, Merced, Alameda, Riverside

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