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spur snapdragon

Habit Annuals.
Stems

10–60 cm, self-supporting, glandular-hairy;

branches not twining.

Leaves

blade linear to oblanceolate.

opposite proximally, alternate distally;

blade linear to oblanceolate, 7–43 × 3–6(–10) mm, surfaces glandular-hairy.

Inflorescences

axillary, flowers solitary.

Pedicels

1–2(–4) mm.

1–4 mm.

Flowers

calyx lobes equal, 4–5.5 mm;

corolla white, veins violet, 9–11 mm, palate rounded, hairy.

chasmogamous;

calyx lobes equal or subequal, glandular-hairy, hairs long, eglandular, adaxial lobe 3–7 × 1 mm;

corolla white to pale lavender, often violet-veined, 9–14 mm, base spurred, mouth 2–3 mm diam., palate sometimes purple-veined, rounded or angular, 3.5–6.5 mm diam., glabrous or hairy.

Capsules

ovoid, 5–7 mm, glandular-hairy, abaxial locule indehiscent or with 1 pore.

Seeds

ridges not reticulate.

black to dark brown, 1 mm, tuberculate and longitudinally ridged.

2n

= 32.

Sairocarpus cornutus subsp. cornutus

Sairocarpus cornutus

Phenology Flowering Jun–Aug.
Habitat Dry stream margins, disturbed areas, often on serpentine.
Elevation 50–1200 m. (200–3900 ft.)
Distribution
from FNA
CA
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Discussion

Subspecies cornutus is known from the Inner North Coast Ranges, the western Cascade Ranges, and the northern Sacramento Valley.

(Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.)

Subspecies 2 (2 in the flora).

(Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.)

Key
1. Corolla veins violet, palates rounded, hairy, without yellow patches.
subsp. cornutus
1. Corolla veins not contrasting, palates angular, glabrous or hairy, often with 2 yellow patches.
subsp. leptaleus
Source FNA vol. 17, p. 45. FNA vol. 17, p. 45.
Parent taxa Plantaginaceae > Sairocarpus > Sairocarpus cornutus Plantaginaceae > Sairocarpus
Sibling taxa
S. cornutus subsp. leptaleus
S. coulterianus, S. kingii, S. multiflorus, S. nuttallianus, S. subcordatus, S. vexillocalyculatus, S. virga, S. watsonii
Subordinate taxa
S. cornutus subsp. cornutus, S. cornutus subsp. leptaleus
Synonyms Antirrhinum cornutum
Name authority unknown (Bentham) D. A. Sutton: Revis. Antirrhineae, 468. (1988)
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