Antirrhinum filipes


Twining snapdragon. filipes, "thread-footed" refers to the tortuous, filamentous flower stalk. The flower is bright yellow. A most handsome, climbing annual, with long, slender, bright green stems and leaves. It climbs by twisting its filamentous flower stalks around the branchlets of shrubs offering it protection. The early flowers, borne about the base of the plant, are often cleistogamous, i.e., fertilized in the bud withoud the opening of the flower. Confined to the creosote-bush area of both deserts; east-ward of Arizona and southern Utah.
Edmung, C. Jaeger, "Desert Wild Flowers" 1944

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