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Sairocarpus coulterianus
Coulter's snapdragon is a wild annual herb of dry California and Baja California shrubland that is rarely grown in gardens. It needs full sun, good drainage and little water, and it often colonises recently burned ground.
Sairocarpus coulterianus (syn. Antirrhinum coulterianum) is a species of New World snapdragon known by the common name Coulter's snapdragon. Anterrhinum coulterianum is a host species for the Edith's checkerspot butterfly.
It is native to southern California and Baja California, where it grows in desert shrublands and in the coastal hills and mountains, especially in areas that have recently burned.
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Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Sairocarpus coulterianus by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts and the care summary drawn from them are shared under the same licence.
The care summary was written by AI (Claude, Anthropic) from the sources on this page, with general growing knowledge where they are silent. Check before relying on it.
Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.
