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Scientific Name: | Antirrhinum majus |
Common Name: | snapdragon |
Family Name: | Plantaginaceae |
Origin: | Africa, Europe |
Hardiness Zone: | Zone 7: (-18 to -12 °C) |
Plant Type: | Annual (grown as), Flowering cut plant, Flowering pot plant, Herbaceous perennial |
Mature Size: | 0.4 - 0.7m x 0.1 - 0.3m (height x width) |
Habit: | Dense, Irregular, Pendulous, Spreading, Stiffly upright, Upright |
Form: | Oval - vertical |
Texture: | Medium - fine |
Landscape Uses: | Bedding plant, Container planting, Cut flower or foliage, Floristry, Group or mass planting, Hanging basket, Perennial border, Summer interest |
Exposure: | Full sun, Part sun/part shade |
Soil or Media: | Alkaline, Well-drained |
Leaves: | Simple, Alternate, Soft flexible, Pinnate venation, Lustrous, Lanceolate, Entire |
Flowers: | Raceme, White, Orange, Yellow, Violet, Pink, Magenta, Red, Dark-red, Bronze, Apr-Jun-Jul-Aug-Sep-Oct |
Fruit: | Capsule, Brown, Aug-Dec |
Key ID Features: | |
Annual plant 0.5-1m tall but many shorter cultivars which are more commonly used; leaves alternate, most lanceolate 4-8cm long x 6-20mm wide; flowers bilaterally symmetrical with and open when squeezed on the sides, 4-5cm long. |