EcoFlora - Penstemon grandiflorus

Penstemon grandiflorus Nutt.
Family: Plantaginaceae Large-Flower Beardtongue, more... [Penstemon bradburii Pursh] John Hilty	Gleason & Cronquist Indiana Flora Resources Vascular plants of NE US and adjacent Canada Biennial or short-lived perennial, glabrous and glaucous throughout, to 2 m; lvs entire, the lower obovate-oblong, 2-4 cm wide, the upper progressively shorter but scarcely narrower, becoming broadly ovate to rotund, subcordate and somewhat clasping; bracteal lvs similar but smaller; fls 2-4 per axil, short-pediceled in a racemiform infl 1.5-3 dm; cal at anthesis 7-11 mm; cor 3.5-5 cm, pale purple outside, glabrous inside and out, widely dilated; fr 1.5-2 cm; seeds 2.5-4 mm; 2n=16. Dry prairies and barrens; Wis. to N.D. and Wyo., s. to Ill., nw. Mo., and Tex. May, June. (P. bradburyi) Gleason, Henry A. & Cronquist, Arthur J. 1991. Manual of vascular plants of northeastern United States and adjacent Canada. lxxv + 910 pp. ©The New York Botanical Garden. All rights reserved. Used by permission. From Flora of Indiana (1940) by Charles C. Deam ...... Indiana Coefficient of Conservatism: C = null, non-native Wetland Indicator Status: N/A
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