EcoFlora - Penstemon

Penstemon
Family: Plantaginaceae Jillian Cowles	Gleason & Cronquist Resources Vascular plants of NE US and adjacent Canada Cal herbaceous, deeply 5-parted; cor tubular or trumpet-shaped, ±distinctly bilabiate, the tube much longer than the lobes; fertile stamens 4, about as long as the tube, the pollen-sacs divaricate; sterile stamen about as long as the fertile ones, usually yellow-bearded toward the tip; style elongate; stigma capitate; fr septicidal; ours (biennial or) perennial herbs, the erect stems arising from a rosette of petioled basal lvs, the cauline lvs oblong to lanceolate or ovate, sessile and often clasping, the upper progressively reduced; fls white to blue-violet or red-violet (red in some extralimital spp.), in terminal paniculiform or racemiform infls. Our spp. all with highly variable lvs, much alike from sp. to sp. 280, mainly N. Amer. 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.
Species within checklist: Western Rangeland Plant Identification List \|\| << 51 - 100 taxa >> Penstemon calcareus Map not Available Penstemon californicus Map not Available Penstemon calycosus Map not Available Penstemon campanulatus Map not Available Penstemon canescens Map not Available Penstemon cardinalis Map not Available Penstemon cardwellii Map not Available Penstemon carnosus Map not Available Penstemon caryi Map not Available Penstemon cedrosensis Map not Available Penstemon centranthifolius Map not Available Penstemon cephalanthus Map not Available Penstemon cephalophorus Map not Available Penstemon chionophilus Map not Available Penstemon cinereus Map not Available Penstemon cinicola Map not Available Penstemon cleburnei Map not Available Penstemon clevelandii Map not Available Penstemon clutei Map not Available Penstemon cobaea Map not Available Penstemon coccinatus Map not Available Penstemon coccineus Map not Available Penstemon collinus Map not Available Penstemon comarrhenus Map not Available Penstemon compactus Map not Available Penstemon concinnus Map not Available Penstemon confertus Map not Available Penstemon confusus Map not Available Penstemon connatifolius Map not Available Penstemon coriaceus Images not available Map not Available Penstemon corymbosus Map not Available Penstemon crandallii Map not Available Penstemon crassifolius Images not available Map not Available Penstemon cristatus Map not Available Penstemon cusickii Map not Available Penstemon cyananthus Map not Available Penstemon cyaneus Map not Available Penstemon cyanocaulis Map not Available Penstemon cyathophorus Map not Available Penstemon dasyphyllus Map not Available Penstemon davidsonii Map not Available Penstemon deamii Map not Available Penstemon deaveri Map not Available Penstemon debilis Map not Available Penstemon decurvus Map not Available Penstemon degeneri Map not Available Penstemon deserticola Map not Available Penstemon desertipicti Map not Available Penstemon desertorum Map not Available Penstemon deustus Map not Available