Common name:
Snapdragon
Family:
Scientific name:
Antirrhinum majus
Main flower color:
Range:
Scattered areas across most of the UK; an introduced species, usually a garden escape
Height:
Up to 150 cm
Habitat:
Waste ground, old walls
Flowers:
Up to 4 cm long; a tubular, pink-purple corolla opening to two lips, the upper divided into two broad lobes, the lower, which has a yellow patch at the centre, into three narrower, partially overlapping lobes. Flowers are produced in an elongated cluster
Leaves:
Stalked, lanceolate, untoothed, hairless, up to 7 cm long, spirally arranged
Season:
July to September
Rarity:
★★★★★
