![]() ![]() While I haven’t sampled all of the different snapdragons out there, I have tasted quite a few because I love having them in my garden, and I can’t resist trying a bite when I’m out wandering in my floral paradise. These tend to have more delicate petals, a fruitier scent, and a correspondingly sweeter flavor. If you intend to eat your snapdragons, consider growing some of the double-flowered (sometimes called butterfly) varieties. Nursery starts are treated with growth hormones and bred to be compact and colorful, with thick petals. Plus, they can be treated with nasty chemicals that you don’t want to ingest. Opposite to alternate above, linear to lanceolate to oblong-lanceolate, glabrous.Also, you know those seedlings you can buy in packs at nurseries in the spring? They have the worst flavor. Leaves: Woody Plant Leaf Characteristics: Deciduous Leaf Color: Green Leaf Type: Simple Leaf Arrangement: Alternate Opposite Leaf Shape: Lanceolate Linear Oblanceolate Oblong Leaf Margin: Entire Hairs Present: No Leaf Length: 3-6 inches Leaf Description: 3" long glossy, dark green, lance-shaped. ![]() Corolla zygomorphic, throat closed off by lower lip. of various colors of anthocyanin & carotenoid pigments.
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