Antirrhinum majus

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Species Distribution Map
Family:PLANTAGINACEAE
Species:Antirrhinum majus L.
Common Name:Garden Snapdragon
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Growth Habit:Herb
Duration:Annual
Category:Vascular
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Plant Notes:Garden Snapdragon is an introduced annual or short-lived perennial in the Plantain family (Plantaginaceae) It is native to the Mediterranean region. In Alabama it is commonly planted as a winter or early spring bedding plant and has been found as an escape on trash piles, on urban lots, and in other disturbed areas. It is a short-lived perennial with a tap root. The upright or trailing stems are often branched near the base. The stems are 1-3 feet in height, green in color, and glabrous or glandular pubescent. Leaves are opposite or alternate, short petiolate or sessile, elliptic to lanceolate in outline, glabrous or sparsely stipitate-glandular, with entire margins. Flowers are produced in glandular pubescent terminal racemes. Flowers have 5 green, glandular pubescent sepals united at their base to form and cup-like calyx. The corolla is funnelform and two-lipped. The corolla throat is closed off by the three-parted lower lip. Only bumble bees are large and strong enough to “pry” the flowers open to reach the nectar a pollinate the plant. The fruit is a capsule. Garden Snapdragon is a commonly cultivated cool season bedding plant that comes in a wide range of colors and sizes. It prefers a moist, organic rich soil in full or partial sun.—A. Diamond.
Taxonomic Notes:**
Status:Not Persisting, Not Native
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Specimen: View specimen details in the Alabama Herbarium Consortium Specimen Database

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Classification

FamilyPLANTAGINACEAE - Plantain family
Genus Antirrhinum
Species Antirrhinum majus L. - Garden Snapdragon

Citation

Citation Antirrhinum majus Linnaeus, Sp. Pl. 2: 617. 1753.
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Type: Without data, (lectotype: LINN 767.58). Lectotypified by Sutton in Jarvis et al (ed.), Regnum Veg. 127: 19. 1993.

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Synonyms

No synonyms exist for this species.

Specimens and Distribution

This species has been reported in the following counties by the herbaria listed. An overview of the individual specimens are provided in the table that follows. Click on the accession number to view details; click on column headers to sort; choose a county or herbaria to filter the specimen data.

Counties included on distribution map: Lee, Pike

Counties represented by specimen data listed below:

Herbaria represented by specimen data listed below: ALNHS, TROY

Range of years during which specimens were collected: -

Barcode / Accession No. County Coll. Date Collector &
Collection No.		 Herbarium &
Herbarium Name Used		 Image
TROY000008987 Pike 02 Apr 1991 Huggins, Gwyn
62		 TROY
Antirrhinum majus Linnaeus
ALNHS00005652 Lee 20 Apr 2018 Barger, T. Wayne
SP#3690		 ALNHS
Antirrhinum majus L.
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