Antirrhinum 'Gummy'
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• common name: trailing snapdragon
• flowering season: spring into fall
• height: 4 to 8 inches and spreading wider
• Light requirements: full sun
• Soil requirements: average to rich
• Water requirments: average; drought tolerant when grown in the ground
• Growth habit: trailing, spreading growth
• How to propagate: tip cuttings in early summer or early fall
• Leaf type: small gray-green leaves covered in soft, downy hairs
• Ways to use it: its low, spreading habit is useful when added to a pot of mixed summer flowers or near the front of a sunny flower garden
• Special characteristics: long blooming and undemanding
• other points of interest: this is a long-lived perennial in warmer climates
This low, gentle plant has gray leaves covered in hairs and sticky stems that spreads eight to fourteen inches wide and grows four to eight inches tall. It does well either planted out in the garden in spring or grown at the edge of a container garden where it will flow over the edge charmingly. As a native of Spain it can take severe heat, and will flower from the beginning of summer until frost. Flowers of light yellow to creamy white are one-inch long. USDA Zones 8 to 11.