Flora of North America species comparison

The green links below add additional plants to the comparison table. Blue links lead to other Web sites.
enable glossary links

Penstemon lentus var. albiflorus

Penstemon lentus var. lentus
Photo is of parent taxon

handsome beardtongue
Photo is of parent taxon

handsome beardtongue
Flowers

corolla white.

corolla lavender to violet, blue, or pinkish blue.

Penstemon lentus var. albiflorus

Penstemon lentus var. lentus
Phenology Flowering May–Jun. Flowering May–Jun.
Habitat Sagebrush shrublands, pinyon-juniper woodlands. Sagebrush shrublands, pinyon-juniper and oak woodlands, ponderosa pine forests.
Elevation 1900–2600 m. (6200–8500 ft.) 1300–2600 m. (4300–8500 ft.)
Distribution
from FNA
UT
[BONAP county map]
from FNA
AZ; CO; NM; UT
[BONAP county map]
Discussion

Variety albiflorus is known only from the Abajo Mountains in San Juan County.

(Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.)

Variety lentus is known from southwestern Colorado, where it has been documented in Archuleta, Dolores, Montezuma, Montrose, and San Miguel counties; it occurs also in Apache and Navajo counties, Arizona, McKinley and San Juan counties, New Mexico, and San Juan County, Utah.

(Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.)
Source FNA vol. 17, p. 121. FNA vol. 17, p. 120.
Parent taxa Plantaginaceae > Penstemon > subg. Penstemon > sect. Coerulei > Penstemon lentus Plantaginaceae > Penstemon > subg. Penstemon > sect. Coerulei > Penstemon lentus
Sibling taxa
P. lentus var. lentus
P. lentus var. albiflorus
Synonyms P. lentus subsp. albiflorus
Name authority (D. D. Keck) Reveal: Great Basin Naturalist 35: 370. (1976) unknown
Web links 
Unless otherwise noted, all data comes from the online version of the Flora of North America, who have made most of their content available via a Creative Commons license (CC BY 4.0).



Type/paste one or more Latin names into the boxes above; matching taxa will show up below the box as you type. You can use the up/down arrow keys to move through the list.

(If the plant you're looking for doesn't show up in the auto-complete list, that means it either isn't described in Flora of North America yet, or it's listed under a synonym. And please note that Flora of North America is still missing several plant families, including Apiaceae, Boraginaceae, and Polemoniaceae.)

Choose a data source: Flora of North America

The species comparison tool is brought to you by:
Northwest Wildflowers