It includes 27 species of annual and perennial herbs native to the Mediterranean Basin, Europe, and western Asia to the western Himalayas.

The leaves are linear to oblong or rounded, opposite at the base.

The flowers resemble snapdragons, being typically zygomorphic, hooded, lobed and spurred.

They are borne in terminal racemes or singly in the leaf axils of the branching stems.

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