Antirrhinum hispanicum explained

Antirrhinum hispanicum, the Spanish snapdragon, is a species of flowering plant belonging to the genus Antirrhinum that is native to southeastern Spain.

Description

It is a perennial herbaceous plant with short, procumbent or ascending stems. It is usually 30or high, maximum to . The plant is glandular to glandular hairy. The leaves, which are mostly opposite and mostly alternate or almost completely alternate, are 5to long and 2to wide, lanceolate to circular.

The flower stems are 2to long. The calyx is set with 6to long, egg-shaped lanceolate and almost pointed to almost blunt goblets. The crown is 20to long, colored white or pink and occasionally has a yellow palate. Inflorescences in terminal clusters of leaf- like bracts. Flowers are hermaphrodite, zygomorphic, of calyx five-lobed almost entirely separate and corolla color white to pink or purple. Fruit in the form of a capsule that gives off ovoid seeds of black color.[1]

Notes and References

  1. [Tom Tutin|Thomas Gaskell Tutin et al]