Antirrhinum virga

Twig-like snapdragon, Twig-Like Snapdragon, twig-like snapdragon, twig-like snapdragon

Family: Plantaginaceae · Type: perennial · Native

Conservation status: CNPS 4.3

Twig-like snapdragon is a California native perennial ranked 4.3 by CNPS, found in southern North Coast Ranges and southern North Coast Inner Ranges in chaparral openings and rocky areas, often on serpentine, at elevations of 200 to 2,000 meters. Flowering from June to July, this plant produces pink flowers in racemes 13 to 18 millimeters long with lips that wither and turn brown. Growing with erect, wand-like stems 40 to 220 centimeters tall, it develops from a woody caudex and maintains a distinctive self-supporting structure. Its leaves are spirally arranged, linear and acute, ranging 5 to 12 centimeters long, with basal leaves reduced to persistent scales and upper leaves transforming to bracts in the flowering region. The fruit is an oblique-ovoid capsule 6 to 9 millimeters long with chambers that dehisce by two pores.

Habitat: Openings in chaparral, rocky areas, often on serpentine

Bloom period: Jun-Jul

Elevation: 200-2000 m

Bioregions: s NCoRH, s NCoRI.

California counties: Colusa, Lake, Sonoma, Napa, Mendocino, Glenn

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