Penstemon cardwellii |
Penstemon ovatus |
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Cardwell's beardtongue |
egg-leaf beardtongue, broad-leaved penstemon |
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Habit | Low shrub, the stems 1-3 dm. tall, ascending or erect. | Robust perennial from a woody base, the clustered stems 3-10 dm. tall, with stiff, spreading hairs below the inflorescence |
Leaves | Leaves opposite, glabrous, the largest on short, sterile shoots, serrulate or nearly entire, short-petiolate, the blades elliptic, 1.5-3.5 cm. long and 6-14 mm. wide; leaves of the flowering shoots less crowded, smaller, sessile and entire. |
Basal leaves opposite, clustered, petiolate, with ovate to sub-cordate blade up to 10 cm. long and half as wide, about equaling the petiole, serrate, hairy like the stem, especially along the mid-vein beneath; cauline leaves sessile and clasping, more sharply serrate, nearly as large, but more broadly oblong, the upper ovate. |
Flowers | Inflorescence racemose, few-flowered and crowded, glandular, the simple pedicels opposite and axillary; calyx 5-12 mm. long, the 5 segments thin and lanceolate; corolla bright purple to deep blue-violet, 30-38 mm. long, about 1 cm. wide at the mouth, keeled on the back, glabrous outside and with long, white hairs near the base of the lower lip within; anthers long-wooly, pollen sacs opposite; staminode slender, shorter than the 4 fertile filaments, long-bearded toward the tip |
Inflorescence large and open, strongly glandular-hairy; calyx 3-5 mm. long, broadly lanceolate, with parallel veins; corolla blue, 15-22 mm. long, glandular-hairy on the outside, the raised portion of the lower petal pale blue and hairy; corolla strongly bilabiate, the lower lip much the longer; pollen sacs 0.8-1.1 mm. long, fully dehiscent and becoming opposite, nearly glabrous; staminode bearded toward the recurved tip. |
Fruits | Capsule |
Capsule 4-6 mm. long. |
Penstemon cardwellii |
Penstemon ovatus |
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Flowering time | May-July | May-August |
Habitat | Open or wooded summits or slopes at middle elevations in the mountains. | Open woods below 3000 feet in elevation. |
Distribution | Occurring west of the Cascades crest in Washington; southwestern Washington to southwestern Oregon.
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Occurring on both sides of the Cascades crest in Washington; southern British Columbia to Oregon.
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Origin | Native | Native |
Conservation status | Not of concern | Not of concern |
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