Snapdragon , Antirrinum ( lat.Antirrhínum ) - one of the most famous genera of perennial herbaceous plants from the Podorozhnikovy family (previously housed in the Norichnikov and Veronikov families). The genus antirrium covers about 50 perennial species, among which there are climbing species common in warm regions of the Earth.
| Snapdragon |
Big snapdragons -
type species of the Snapdragon genus |
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Antirrhinum L. , 1753 [2] |
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Antirrhinum majus [3] - Snapdragon large |
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Color variations of snapdragon
Snapdragon is most common in the Northern Hemisphere , especially in North America . In Russia and neighboring countries it is found mainly in gardens, where it is widely used in the design of flower beds . In the wild, there are about 22 species with ears of brightly colored zygomorphic flowers of bright yellow, purple, blue flowers, resembling a lion's mouth in the shape of a flower. Large snapdragon is , in particular, the most common garden species imported from North America.
Perennial herbaceous or shrubby plants with large, finely furrowed green stems. The stems are straight, branched, with a height of 15 to 100 cm, forming pyramidal bushes. Lower leaves opposite, upper alternate, from lanceolate to elongate-oval. The flowers are large, irregular, two-lipped, simple or double, collected in a racemose. The color of the flowers is white, pink, yellow and two-tone. It blooms from June to frost.
According to the database of The Plant List , the genus includes 21 species [4] :
- Antirrhinum australe Rothm.
- Antirrhinum barrelieri boreau
- Antirrhinum braun-blanquetii Rothm.
- Antirrhinum charidemi lange
- Antirrhinum × chavannesii Rothm.
- Antirrhinum graniticum Rothm.
- Antirrhinum Grosii Font Quer
- Antirrhinum hispanicum Chav.
- Antirrhinum × kretschmeri Rothm.
- Antirrhinum latifolium Mill.
- Antirrhinum majus L. typus [3] - snapdragon large
- Antirrhinum martenii ( Font Quer ) Rothm.
- Antirrhinum meonanthum Hoffmanns. & Link
- Antirrhinum microphyllum Rothm.
- Antirrhinum molle L.
- Antirrhinum × Montserratii Molero & Romo
- Antirrhinum pertegasii Rothm.
- Antirrhinum pulverulentum Lázaro Ibiza
- Antirrhinum sempervirens Lapeyr.
- Antirrhinum siculum Mill.
- Antirrhinum Valentinum Font Quer
- Tea from the snapdragon is drunk for liver diseases , with bloating .
- With jaundice and kidney disease, snapdragon is used in a mixture with immortelle sand and stigmas of corn .
- Infusion of flowers of snapdragon is drunk with shortness of breath , dropsy , with headaches .
- Outwardly , a snap of snapdragon helps to treat hemorrhoids , as well as boils and various ulcers .
- ↑ For the conventionality of specifying the class of dicotyledons as a superior taxon for the plant group described in this article, see the APG Systems section of the Dicotyledonous article .
- ↑ Sp. Pl. 2: 612.1753
- ↑ 1 2 Information about the genus Antirrhinum (English) in the Index Nominum Genericorum database of the International Association for Plant Taxonomy (IAPT) .
- ↑ Antirrhinum . The Plant List . Version 1.1. (2013). Date of treatment January 7, 2017.
- Antirrinum // Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary : in 86 volumes (82 volumes and 4 additional). - SPb. , 1890-1907.
- Antirrinum - an article from the Great Soviet Encyclopedia .
- Rothmaler W. Taxonomische Monographie der Gattung Antirrhinum // . - B .: Akademie Verlag , 1956 .-- T. 136 . - ISSN 0374-6577 .
