Antirrhinum vexillocalyculatum subsp. breweri

Family: Plantaginaceae · Type: annual · Native

Brewer's snapdragon is a California native annual found in the Klamath Ranges, northern Coast Ranges, and California Rocky Forests in gravelly lower slopes, rockslides, and disturbed areas, often on serpentine at elevations below 2,000 meters. Flowering from June to September, this plant produces flowers with some dark-veined petals in delicate, complex arrangements. Growing with glandular stems 7 to 76 centimeters tall, it has distinctive branching with a single leaf at the proximal node of its flowering branches. Its leaves and stems feature short glandular hairs less than 3 millimeters long, creating a subtle textural quality. The flower's upper calyx lobe measures 3.3 to 5.3 millimeters, with a lower lobe 2.4 to 3.6 millimeters long, supporting a corolla 8 to 12 millimeters in size.

Habitat: Gravelly lower slopes of rockslides, disturbed areas, often on serpentine

Bloom period: Jun-Sep

Elevation: < 2000 m

Bioregions: KR, NCoR, CaRF

California counties: Trinity, Lake, Mendocino, Humboldt, Siskiyou, Shasta, Colusa, Napa, Sonoma, Tehama, Solano, Del Norte, Glenn, Marin, Lassen, Sutter, Sierra

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