Snapdragons in the mood

By: Pfeiffer in Floral & Fauna on Jan. 23, 2012
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A snapdragon (Antirrhinum) is a sort of plants which today is counted to the family of the Plantaginaceae because their molecular datas.Traditionel she was in the family of the Scrophulariaceae. The category has a disjunct ground and exist in 21 sorts in the west Mediterrean and with 15 sorts in the west of Northamerica. A lot of sorts of the snapdragon are famous as ornamental plant and the big one (Antirrhinum majus) is an important model plant for the exploration of the development of blooms.

snapdragons are perennial or oneyear herbaceous plants. The growth variats strongly and contains branching sorts. With the most american sorts are short rankings buildet. All sorts have a strong developing rootnetwork as an adaption to dry habitat. From the in opposite ordered, while the higher on the bloom sitting and changing leaves the ones down are shafted.The simply leaves have feathernerves.

The brooms stand alone or in endind brooms together. The hybrid, zygomorph brooms exept of the Antiirrhinum ovatum, created as eye-catching maskflowers which under lip is closed. The nektar is made by a circular nectar on the basis of the fruit ans collect itself in a bulge on the underside of the low lip. The three top levels of the low lip are not equal in size. To narcote a strong insect has to put down the low lip to rech the polls and the nectar.
Snapdragons are coloured in different colour: white, yellow and pink are just a choice out of them. If you hav ethem in your garden you have to cut of the broom. To keep them longer nice you cut them in the morning after watering the plant the evening before.

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