Angiosperms (Flowering Plants) • Earth.com

Corn toadflax

(Linaria arvensis)

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Description

Antirrhinum is a genus of plants commonly known as dragon flowers or snapdragons because of the flowers' fancied resemblance to the face of a dragon that opens and closes its mouth when laterally squeezed. They are native to rocky areas of Europe, the United States, and North Africa.The genus is morphologically diverse, particularly the New World group (Saerorhinum) .The genus is characterized by personate flowers with an inferior gibbous corolla.

Taxonomic tree:

Domain:
Kingdom: Plantae
Phylum:
Class: Magnoliopsida
Order:Lamiales
Family:Plantaginaceae
Genus:Linaria
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