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Snapdragons
Their Beauty and Resilience
I needed something positive to write about this morning, and there isn’t anything more positive than the Snapdragon.
It’s Beauty and Resilience
It’s beauty far surpasses the other flowers, I had planted in my memory garden this Spring, and it’s resilience out did them all.
It died in the Summer heat, and reseeded itself, and came back and bloomed again.
How Are They Named?
Snapdragons are named after closed like a jaw.r the shape and movement of their flowers, which look like a dragons head and snap open and closed like a jaw.
Appearance
The individual blossoms resemble a dragon’s face or open jaw.
Snapping Motion
When you gently squeeze the sides of the flower with your fingers, the petals part and then snap shut like a biting mouth.
Global Names
Their Botanical Name is Antirrhinum.
While English speaker call them Snapdragon, many other languages name them after other animals — as “little lions mouth” in German, or “Wolfe’s Mouth” in French.
