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🌸 Flower
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Snapdragon
Antirrhinum majus
Snapdragon (Antirrhinum majus), a short-lived perennial of the Plantaginaceae family usually grown as an annual, bears tall spikes of two-lipped flowers whose mouths pop open when a bee lands on them.
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- Plantaginaceae
- Plant type
- Tender perennial grown as an annual
- Bloom color
- White, yellow, pink, red, orange, peach, and purple, including bicolors
- Bloom season
- Spring through frost (April to first frost)
- Mature height
- 30-90 cm cm
- Sun requirements
- Full sun
- Fragrance
- Mild scent, released mainly after a pollinator lands
- Native region
- South-central France and the eastern Pyrenees to north-eastern Spain and the Balearic Islands
Growing
Growing Conditions
- Water requirements
- Medium; keep soil consistently moist but well-drained.
- Climate requirements
- Winter hardy to USDA zones 7-10; grown as a cool-season annual elsewhere.
- Soil types
- Moist, organically rich, well-drained soil.
- Propagation method
- Seed, cuttings
Ecology
Pollinators & Toxicity
- Pollinator value
- The closed corolla requires the weight of a bumblebee to trip open, largely excluding lighter insects and favoring bumblebees as pollinators.
- Toxicity
- Non-toxic to dogs, cats, and horses according to the ASPCA.
Use
Uses & Economic Importance
- Uses
- Bedding, borders, edging, containers, window boxes, cut flowers
- Economic importance
- One of the most widely grown bedding and cut-flower crops, in cultivation since the 15th century.
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