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Origin:
Native
Life Cycle:
Perennial
General Desc:
The tallest penstemon in the Southwest and one of the few fragrant penstemons. The flowers are designed for bee pollination, providing a landing platform and a swollen tube to accommodate the chubby bodies of bumblebees.
Identification notes: Stems smooth, hairless. Leaves are obviously toothed, the base of the uppermost leaves are fused around the stem. Flower petals strongly two-lipped, abruptly inflated from a tube not longer than the sepals, pale pink to pink, white throats, purple guides.
Height:
To 4 feet
Habitat Description: Oak, pinyon juniper woodlands and montane conifer forests; along roadsides, washes, slopes, among sagebrush, canyon floors.
Plant Communities:
Pinyon Juniper Woodland, Montane Conifer Forest, Disturbed Areas
Elevation: 3500 - 6800 feet
Color:
Pale pink to pink
Shape:
Irregular in elongated clusters
Tubular:
Y
Flowering Period:
Mar - Sep
Description:
Flowers, 1-1/2 inches long, in an open or dense spike cluster that is up to 2 feet long; each balloon-like bloom has 2 lobes flaring backwards and three lobes bending downward; lobes are streaked with magenta. Flowers are on one side of the stems.
Leaf Color:
Grayish-green
Leaf Type:
Simple
Leaf Shape:
Triangular
Leaf Margin:
Toothed
Leaf Attachment:
Basal and opposite
Leaves Clasp:
Y
Hairs:
No
Spines:
N
Leaf Description:
Leathery leaves, 1 to 5 inches long with toothed or wavy margins; uppermost opposite leaves are joined at their bases around the stem.
Fruit Color: Tan
Fruit Type: Capsule
Fruit Notes: Erect capsules are 1/2 inch long.
Seed Notes: Black.
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