Flora of North America species comparison

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Mohavea breviflora

desert snapdragon, golden desert-snapdragon
Stems

5–20(–40) cm, branched.
Leaves

blade narrowly lanceolate to elliptic, 15–40 × 3–15 mm.
Pedicels

3–5 mm in flower, 5–10 mm in fruit.
Flowers

calyx abaxial and lateral lobes 5–9 mm, adaxial lobe 7–10 mm;

corolla yellow, sometimes lightly spotted with maroon, 15–20 mm, palate convex, yellow, marked with maroon.
Seeds

2–2.5 mm.
2n

= 30.

Mohavea breviflora
Phenology Flowering Feb–Apr.
Habitat Desert, gravelly slopes, washes, roadsides.
Elevation -40–1900 m. (-100–6200 ft.)
Distribution
from FNA
AZ; CA; NV; UT
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Source FNA vol. 17, p. 37.
Parent taxa Plantaginaceae > Mohavea
Sibling taxa
M. confertiflora
Synonyms Antirrhinum mohavea
Name authority Coville: Contr. U.S. Natl. Herb. 4: 168, plate 17. (1893)
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