Antirrhinum vexillocalyculatum

Wiry snapdragon

Family: Plantaginaceae · Type: annual · Native

Wiry snapdragon is a California native annual found in rocky or disturbed areas, typically growing at moderate elevations. Flowering from spring to early summer, this plant produces lavender flowers with darker veining, the blossoms curved upward with conspicuous lower lip lobes that thrust forward. Growing with erect but weak stems that often cling to other plants or surrounding debris, it reaches heights of 10 to 40 centimeters. Its leaves are elliptic to ovate, measuring 1.5 to 6 centimeters long, with obtuse to rounded tips and occasionally variable petiole lengths. The fruit is small, 4 to 8 millimeters long, and uniquely dehiscent through three pores at the tip.

California counties: Mendocino, Lake, Sonoma, Marin, Solano, Tuolumne, Contra Costa, Napa, San Diego, Alameda, San Bernardino, Tehama, Santa Clara, Yolo, Colusa, Siskiyou, Glenn, San Benito

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