''Chaenorhinum'' is a genus consisting of four species of annual and perennial herbs native to Turkey and the Mediterranean, where they thrive in dry stony areas and scree. They are closely related to

snapdragons ''Antirrhinum'' is a genus of plants commonly known as dragon flowers, snapdragons and dog flower because of the flowers' fancied resemblance to the face of a dragon that opens and closes its mouth when laterally squeezed. They are native to r ...

. The leaves are linear to oblong or rounded, opposite at the base. The flowers resemble snapdragons, being typically

zygomorphic Floral symmetry describes whether, and how, a flower, in particular its perianth, can be divided into two or more identical or mirror-image parts. Uncommonly, flowers may have no axis of symmetry at all, typically because their parts are spirall ...

, hooded, lobed and spurred. They are borne in terminal racemes or singly in the leaf axils of the branching stems.

Species

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Chaenorhinum minus ''Chaenorhinum minus'', also known as small toadflax in Europe and dwarf snapdragon in the US and Canada, is a very diminutive member of the plant family Plantaginaceae. It is native to continental Europe. Description ''Chaenorhinum minus'' dif ...

'' (also known as "small toadflax" or "dwarf snapdragon",) *'' Chaenorhinum origanifolium'' (syn. ''Chaenorhinum gloriosum'') *'' Chaenorhinum rubrifolium'' *'' Chaenorhinum villosum''

References

Botanica Sistematica
Plantaginaceae Plantaginaceae genera Taxa named by Augustin Pyramus de Candolle {{Plantaginaceae-stub