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Penstemon heterophyllus Lindl.

Modern name

Penstemon heterophyllus Lindl.

A subshrub usually under 112 ft high, the stems, leaves, and inflorescences either glabrous or slightly downy. Leaves opposite, sessile, linear or lanceolate, 1 to 4 in. long, 18 to 14 in. wide, sessile, green or more rarely glaucous. Flowers lavender-blue at the mouth, purplish red at the base, 1 to 114 in. long, borne in the axils of reduced leaves at the ends of the season’s shoots singly or in twos; tube narrow, somewhat inflated and expanded at the apex. Anthers hairy on the margin; sterile stamen glabrous. Bot. Mag., t. 3853.

Native of California; discovered by Douglas and introduced by him in 1828. It is a beautiful species in its best-coloured forms but rather tender and intolerant of winter wet.


Genus

Penstemon

Other species in the genus