Snapdragon
ஆன்டிரைனம் மாச்சு
Antirrhinum majus L.
- light
- Sun–part
- water
- Medium
- tall
- 71 cm
- wide
- 20 cm
Plantaginaceae
Also called Snapdragon Complex, Common snapdragon; garden snapdragon; snapdragon, Garden snapdragon
Formerly Orontium majus
When it flowers
Flowers October to February in the tropics.
Read from iNaturalist photographs of it in flower. A month counts at 50% of the best month's flowering share (smoothed over three months) and 10% of its flowering count, from at least 100 flowering observations in the band.
If a child, a pet or anyone may have eaten a plant, contact a doctor or vet straight away, or call the National Poisons Information Centre (AIIMS, New Delhi) on 1800 116 117, free and open 24 hours.
Something wrong with it?About it
- Grows as
- SubshrubKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Climate
- TemperateKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Wild in
- N. Spain to SC. & E. FranceKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Light
- Full sun to part shade (3 h or more)Read from NC State Extension, one source
- Height
- 51 cm to 91 cmRead from NC State Extension and Wikipedia, checked by a majority of its sourcesBacked by both sources. Sources differ: NC State Extension 6–36 in; Wikipedia 0.5–1 m
- Spread
- 15 cm to 25 cmRead from NC State Extension, one source
- Water
- Average: moist, well drainedRead from NC State Extension, one source
- Flowers
- White, yellow, orange, pink, purpleRead from NC State Extension and Wikipedia, checked by a majority of its sourcesBacked by both sources. Sources differ: NC State Extension orange, pink, purple, white, yellow; Wikipedia orange, pink, purple, red, white, yellow
- Coldest it survives
- -17.8 °C (USDA zone 7a)Read from NC State Extension, one source
Not known yet: heat, hottest it survives.
Grow it with
Suggested by a rule, not by a gardener: same climate (kew), flowering when this plant does not (inaturalist), and a different shape.
ElderFlowers March to September, when this does not
Memorial RoseFlowers March to September, when this does not
PurslaneFlowers March to September, when this does not
Tree RhododendronFlowers March to September, when this does not
PomegranateFlowers April to September, when this does not
Japanese honeysuckleFlowers March to July, when this does not
In other languages (12)
- Chinese
- 金鱼草
- Spanish
- Boca de dragón
- Catalan
- Conillets
- Czech
- hledík větší
- Danish
- Have-Løvemund
- German
- Garten-Löwenmaul, Großes Löwenmaul
- Estonian
- Suur lõvilõug
- Persian
- گل میمون
- Finnish
- isoleijonankita, leijonankita
- French
- Muflier à grandes fleurs
- Hebrew
- לוע-ארי גדול
- Upper Sorbian
- Zahrodna lawica
Where this comes from
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-24, CC0-1.0 (observation counts)
- Wikidata, read 2026-10-26, CC0-1.0
- Kew's checklist, read 2026-10-24, CC-BY-4.0
- NC State Extension, read 2026-10-28, fact, cited
- Wikipedia, read 2026-10-25, fact, cited
- Wikimedia Commons, read 2026-10-24, CC BY 2.5
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC0
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY
- 3D model: Antirrhinum majus (built for Vanagrha) by Vanagrha, own
A fact “checked by a majority of its sources” was settled by a vote of the pages it was read from, not by a person reading it; one marked “one source” rests on that page alone. Anything else not marked checked has not been checked yet. Where nothing is known, the page says so rather than guess.