Kickxia spuria

{{Short description|Species of flowering plant}} {{About|the flower known as round-leaved fluellen|the character in a play by William Shakespeare|Fluellen}} {{Speciesbox |image = Kickxia spuria eF.jpg |image2 = Kickxia spuria - Flickr - Kevin Thiele.jpg |genus = Kickxia |species = spuria |authority = (L.) Dumort. |synonyms = ''Antirrhinum spurium'' }}

'''''Kickxia spuria''''' is a species of flowering plant in the family Plantaginaceae known by several common names, including '''roundleaf cancerwort'''<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://plants.usda.gov/java/profile?symbol=KISP |title=USDA Plants Profile |access-date=2008-05-18 |archive-date=2008-10-11 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081011030618/http://plants.usda.gov/java/profile?symbol=KISP |url-status=live }}</ref> and '''round-leaved fluellen'''.<ref name=BSBI07>{{BSBI 2007 |accessdate=2014-10-17 }}</ref> It is native to Europe and Asia, but it is present on other continents as an introduced species, and sometimes a noxious weed. This is a low hairy herb with a creeping stem with many branches. It produces rounded, fuzzy leaves at wide intervals along the stem, and solitary snapdragon-like flowers. Each flower is up to 1.5 centimeters long with a narrow, pointed spur extending from the back. The lobes of the mouth are yellow, white, and deep purple, and the whole flower is fuzzy to hairy. The fruit is a spherical capsule about 4 millimeters long. This species is similar to its relative, ''Kickxia elatine'', but for the shape of its leaves, and the hairy flower stalk, which is bare with ''Kickxia elatine''.

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==External links== *[http://ucjeps.berkeley.edu/cgi-bin/get_JM_treatment.pl?7177,7363,7365 Jepson Manual Treatment] *[http://calphotos.berkeley.edu/cgi/img_query?query_src=photos_index&where-taxon=Kickxia+spuria Photo gallery] *[https://www.gbif.org/species/3170817 ''Kickxia spuria '' occurrence data] from GBIF

spuria Category:Flora of Europe Category:Flora of temperate Asia