Plants of South Eastern New South Wales

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Misopates orontium

Common name

Lesser Snapdragon

Family

Plantaginaceae

Where found

Garden escape. Mostly Sydney area and Blue Mountains. Rarely elsewhere.

Notes

Introduced annual herb to 0.6 m high, sparsely to moderately hairy in the lower parts; glandular-hairy (sometimes with longer non-glandular hairs) and sometimes rough in the upper parts. Leaves opposite each other, 1.5–6.5 cm long, 2–10 mm wide, margins entire and curved down. Flowers white with a blue, purple or pink flush at the base, or violet and red, or pink and purple, 12–15 mm long, tubular, the tube swollen at the base into a pouch, 2-lipped, with 5 lobes. Flowers in loose clusters. Flowers throughout the year.

Family was Scrophulariaceae.

Environmentall weed Vic.

PlantNET description:  http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Misopates~orontium  (accessed 24 January, 2021)