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Misopates orontium (Weasel's Snout)

Synonyms: Agorrhinum orontium (homotypic); Antirrhinum multibracteatum (homotypic); Antirrhinum orontium var. chrysothales; Antirrhinum variabile (homotypic)

Wikipedia Abstract

Misopates orontium is a herbaceous annual plant of the family Plantaginaceae. It is a native of disturbed ground in Europe. It is also naturalised as a weed in other parts of the world such as North America. The pink flowers resemble a miniature Snapdragon and are followed by a hairy green fruit which is said to resemble a weasel's snout. Common names include linearleaf snapdragon, weasel's snout, lesser snapdragon or calf's snout.
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Infraspecies

Predators

Heteropatella antirrhini[1]
Junonia orithya (Blue pansy)[1]

Consumers

Parasitized by 
Golovinomyces orontii[1]
Peronospora antirrhini[1]

External References

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Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
1Jorrit H. Poelen, James D. Simons and Chris J. Mungall. (2014). Global Biotic Interactions: An open infrastructure to share and analyze species-interaction datasets. Ecological Informatics.
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Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0