Antirrhinum majus, Common Snapdragon,
Hebrew: לוע-ארי הגדול, Arabic: گل میمون
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| Scientific name: |
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Antirrhinum majus L. |
| Common name: |
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Common Snapdragon |
| Hebrew name: |
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לוע-ארי הגדול |
| Arabic name: |
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گل میمون |
| Family: |
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Scrophulariaceae, לועניתיים |
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| Life form: |
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Chamaephyte |
| Stems: |
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15-90cm high; plants with dark colored flowers have dark green or reddish stems and those with white or pale flowers have pale green stems |
| Leaves: |
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Alternate, simple, entire, oblong; spatulate; more than 3 times as long as wide |
| Inflorescence: |
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Flowers zygomorphic, in terminal, bracteate racemes |
| Flowers: |
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Bracts ovate to ovate-lanceolate; pedicels 2-10mm; calyx lobes, ovate-oblong to suborbicular, obtuse; corolla, pink, violet |
| Fruits / pods: |
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Ovoid capsule 10-14 mm diameter, containing numerous small seeds |
| Flowering Period: |
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April, May |
| Habitat: |
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Hard rock outcrops |
| Distribution: |
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Mediterranean Woodlands and Shrublands, Montane vegetation of Mt. Hermon |
| Chorotype: |
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Mediterranean |
| Summer shedding: |
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Perennating |
| Derivation of the botanical name:
Antirrhinum, from Greek anti (αντι), “like,” and rhis (ριϛ, ινοϛ), “nose”, inus (-ινοϛ), probably referring to the nose-like capsule in its mature state.
majus, bigger, larger.
The Romans called it leonis ora, or “lion’s mouth.” The Old French word for Snapdragon was muflier, or “snout”; the Italians called the flower bocca de leone, and the Germans Löwenmäul, which both mean “lion’s mouth.”
The Hebrew word: לוע-ארי, loah-arie, “lion’s mouth.”
- The standard author abbreviation L. is used to indicate Carl Linnaeus (1707 – 1778), a Swedish botanist, physician, and zoologist, the father of modern taxonomy.
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