Misopates orontium, (L.) Rafin.

Tutin, T. G., Heywood, V. H., Burges, N. A., Moore, D. M., Valentine, D. H., Walters, S. M. & Webb, D. A., 1972, Flora Europaea. Volume 3. Diapensiacea to Myoporaceae, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press : 224

1. M. orontium (L.) Rafin. , Autikon Bot. 158 (1840)

( Antirrhinum orontium L. ).

Stem (5-)20-50 cm, erect, sparingly branched, glabrous to sparsely hirsute below, glandular-pubescent above. Leaves 20-50 x 2-7 mm, linear to oblong-elliptical, subacute, shortly petiolate, opposite below, often alternate above. Flowers in a lax, terminal raceme; bracts similar to leaves but decreasing in size upwards; pedicels very short in flower, up to 4 mm in fruit. Calyx 10-17 mm; lobes linear, the longest about 11 times as long as the shortest. Corolla 10-15 mm, equalling or shorter than the calyx, pink (rarely white). Capsule 8-10 mm, ovoid, gibbous, glandular-hairy. 2/7=16. Cultivated ground; occasionally in other open habitats; somewhat calcifuge. S., W. & C. Europe, but doubtfully native in much o f the centre and northwest; locally naturalized as a weed further north and east. Al *Au Az *Be BI *Br Bu Co Cr Ga G r *Hb He Ho Hs *Hu It Ju Lu Rm Rs (W, K) Sa Si Tu [Cz Da Ge Po Rs (C) Su].