Antirrhinum hispanicum

Flowers

It is a perennial herbaceous plant with short, procumbent or ascending stems. It is usually 30 or 35 centimeters high, maximum to 60 cm. The plant is glandular to glandular hairy. The leaves, which are mostly opposite and mostly alternate or almost completely alternate, are 5 to 35 mm long and 2 to 20 mm wide, lanceolate to circular.

The flower stems are 2 to 20 mm long. The calyx is set with 6 to 8 mm long, egg-shaped lanceolate and almost pointed to almost blunt goblets. The crown is 20 to 25 mm long, colored white or pink and occasionally has a yellow palate. Inflorescences in terminal clusters of leaf- like bracts. Flowers are hermaphrodite, zygomorphic, of calyx five-lobed almost entirely separate and corolla color white to pink or purple. Fruit in the form of a capsule that gives off ovoid seeds of black color.[2]

It grows on both limestone and siliceous rocks, on stony soils and roadsides, between 200 and 2000 meters above sea level, or in the cracks in the walls of various constructions.

It is native in the southeast of the Iberian Peninsula, in the provinces of Granada and Almeria. In Almería it is located between Bayárcal and Hornco Ravine.