January 28th, 2008
Bob Nold placed this question on the Penstemon-L discussion forum. …. looked like a good blog subject, so the webmaster asked Bob if it would be alright to post on our blog. He said that was okay…
I am curious regarding what other “Penstemaniacs” think about how Mitchell
derived the name Penstemon. I also wonder why Taxonomists still fail to
give Mitchell credit for creating the name. Why can’t some clever
taxonomist suggest something like “Penstemon Schmidel ex Mitchell” as the
genus name? (more…)
January 26th, 2008
1. Julie Shapiro will be adding pics and information from her work with Penstemon seeds. Go to the Library, Seeds page on this site
2. Carpooling information removed from Blog - Also, 2008 Annual Trip information was removed and will be replaced by 2009 Annual Trip information
3. Daily updates to the Penstemon description page @ Identification, Descriptions page on this website.
4. More documents arriving for the taxonomy page under the Identification tab.
5. Specific Penstemon locations on the Distribution tab. January to February timeframe.
6. An updated search engine for this site. ETA of mid-February.
7. Frequent updates to the Annual Meeting page.
Please feel free to look around.
Some Notes on the derivation of the word Penstemon
