Snapdragons resemble the face of a dragon that opens and closes its mouth when they are squeezed from the sides.
They are native to rocky areas of Europe, the United States, and North Africa. Snapdragons are an important garden plant, widely cultivated as a border or container plant. Antirrhinum is a genus that has been used from the earliest genetic studies of Gregor Mendel and Charles Darwin. It has a become model organism for the investigation of the genetic basis of plant development.
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