Snapdragon
- Botanical Name
- Antirrhinum majus
- Hardiness
- Hardy annual, tender perennial
- Height
- 6 to 48 inches
- Flowers
- Summer thru frost: white, yellow, bronze, purple, pink, red
- Light
- Part to full sun
- Soil
- Moist, well-drained
- Planting & Care
- Space smaller varieties 6 inches apart, medium varieties 8 inches apart, taller varieties 10 to 12 inches apart
- Taller varieties require staking
- Frost tolerant
- Stalls in heat
- Problems
- Aphids, mites, rust
- Varieties
- Floral Carpet & Floral Showers - dwarf varieties, 8-10"
- Sonnet Series - 22", free flowering, wet tolerant, no staking, good cutflower
- Bell - 8-10", heat tolerant
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