Penstemon ovatus |
Penstemon rupicola |
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egg-leaf beardtongue, broad-leaved penstemon |
cliff beardtongue, rock penstemon |
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Habit | Robust perennial from a woody base, the clustered stems 3-10 dm. tall, with stiff, spreading hairs below the inflorescence | Basally shrubby, mat-forming perennial, the spreading-hairy, erect or ascending stems up to 1 dm. tall. |
Leaves | 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. |
Mat leaves thick and firm, glaucous, glabrous or with short, spreading hairs, irregularly serrulate, the broadly elliptic or obovate blade 8-18 mm. long; leaves of the flowering shoots opposite, few, less than 1 cm. long. |
Flowers | 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. |
Inflorescence a compact, few-flowered raceme, glandular-hairy; calyx 6-11 mm. long, the 5 segments narrowly lance-elliptic to ovate-oblong; corolla bright pink to rose-purple, 25-35 mm. long, keeled on the back, usually glabrous inside and out; anthers long-woolly; pollen sacs wholly dehiscent and opening wide enough to form a plane; staminode slender, shorter that the fertile filaments, nearly glabrous. |
Fruits | Capsule 4-6 mm. long. |
Capsule |
Penstemon ovatus |
Penstemon rupicola |
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Flowering time | May-August | May-August |
Habitat | Open woods below 3000 feet in elevation. | Rock cliffs and rocky slopes from middle elevations in the mountains to the alpine. |
Distribution | Occurring on both sides of the Cascades crest in Washington; southern British Columbia to Oregon.
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Occurring on both sides of the Cascades crest and in the Columbia River Gorge in Washington; Washington to California.
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Origin | Native | Native |
Conservation status | Not of concern | Not of concern |
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