Citation: Raf., Autik. Bot. 158 (1840).

Synonymy: Antirrhinum orontium L., Sp. Pl. 617 (1753).

Common name: Lesser snapdragon, corn snapdragon.

Description:
Erect herb 15-60 cm tall, villous in the lower parts with long eglandular hairs, glandular-pubescent and sometimes scabrous in the upper parts with scattered long glandular hairs; leaves with the blade narrow-ovate-elliptic to linear, those on the main branches 1.5-6.5 x 0.2-1.8 cm, narrow-attenuate, entire, acute, the margin recurved midrib and fine veins prominent below.

Flowers in terminal loose racemes; bracts similar to the leaves but smaller, exceeding the flowers; pedicel 2-3 mm long; sepals narrow-ovate to linear, 10-17 mm long; corolla 10-14 mm long along the upper side, equalling or shorter than the calyx, white with a blue, purple or pink flush at the base and similarly coloured lines inside at the base of the lower lip, or violet and red, or pink and purple.

Capsule obliquely ovoid-ellipsoid, 6-8 x 4.5-5 mm, thin-walled, darkbrown, covered by a mixture of short and long glandular hairs; seeds 0.9-1.1 mm long, white, maturing to brown-black.

	Habit, flower, fruit and seed.
Image source: fig. 594 in Jessop J.P. & Toelken H.R. (Ed.) 1986. Flora of South Australia (4th edn).

Published illustration: Ross-Craig (1966) Drawings Brit. Pl. 22:t. 13.

Distribution:  In gardens and weedy moist sites. S.Aust.: FR, EP, NL, SL, KI, SE.   W.Aust.; Qld; N.S.W.; Vic.   Probably native to central and western Mediterranean, but naturalised widely in Europe and elsewhere. Conservation status: naturalised Flowering time: throughout the year.

SA Distribution Map based on current data relating to specimens held in the State Herbarium of South Australia

Biology: No text

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