Snapdragon - Antirrhinum majus

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Description

This plant produces upright racemes of two-lipped flowers with spreading, rounded lobes in a number of different colours. Leaves linear to elliptical, untoothed, the lower leaves crowded.

Identification difficulty
Habitat

A common garden plant that can escape and may persist and become naturalised in walls, waste places and quarries.

When to see it

Flowers from early summer through autumn.

Life History

Perennial.

UK Status

Widespread especially in southern Britain.

VC55 Status

Occasion in Leicestershire and Rutland. In the 1979 Flora survey of Leicestershire it was found in 48 of the 617 tetrads

  • Graham Calow
    Cosby WMC Car Park
    16 May 2016
  • Graham Calow
    Cosby WMC Car Park
    16 May 2016
  • Graham Calow
    Near Huncote Road, Stoney Stanton
    14 July 2016
  • Graham Calow
    Field near Huncote Road, Stoney Stanton
    23 June 2016
  • David Nicholls
    Ratby Church
    19 May 2016
  • Graham Calow
    Cosby WMC Car Park
    16 May 2016

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Species profile

Common names
Snapdragon
Species group:
flowering plant
Kingdom:
Plantae
Order:
Lamiales
Family:
Plantaginaceae
Records on NatureSpot:
40
First record:
16/05/2016 (Calow, Graham)
Last record:
21/10/2025 (Pugh, Dylan)

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  • Graham Calow
    Field near Huncote Road, Stoney Stanton
    23 June 2016
  • Graham Calow
    Cosby WMC Car Park
    16 May 2016
  • Graham Calow
    Huncote Road, Stoney Stanton
    09 September 2016
  • steven lewis
    Scalford
    30 May 2019
  • Saharima Roenisch
    Abbey Park
    07 November 2018
  • Craig Mabbett
    Byre Cresent Broughton Astley
    26 September 2019
  • Saharima Roenisch
    Welford Road Cemetery
    06 August 2018
  • Saharima Roenisch
    Abbey Park
    07 November 2018
    growing out of the wall