Common name
English: Pale Weasel's-Snout
German: Blasses Löwenmaul
Classification
Kingdom: Plantae (2625)
Phylum: Tracheophyta (2528)
Class: Magnoliopsida (2137)
Order: Lamiales (177)
Family: Plantaginaceae (16)(family description)
Genus: Misopates (2)
Epithet: calycinum (Lam.) Rothm. (3)
Synonyms: Antirrhinum calycinum Lam., Antirrhinum elegans Ten., Antirrhinum grandiflorum (Chav.) Batt. & Trabut, Antirrhinum jamaicense Fisch. ex Colla, Antirrhinum orontium var. grandiflorum Chav., Antirrhinum orontium var. leiocarpum Pau, Antirrhinum theodori Sennen & Mauricio, Antirrhinum theodorii Sennen & Mauricio, Misopates orontium Valdés (Chav.), Orontium calycinum (Vent.) Pers.
calycinum => nature or form of a calyx
elegans => graceful, neat, nice
grandiflorum => with flowers larger than the normal
jamaicense => from Jamaica
orontium => from German Orant, no relation to genus Orontium named after a plant found on the river Orontes in Syria
theodorii => in honor of Theodor Karl Julius Herzog (1880-1961), German bryologist and phytogeographer
Characteristics
Climate: temperate
Habit: herb
Flower colour: purple, white