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| Attribute | The current selection is Penstemon_abietinus |
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| Classification | Penstemon
Penstemon Ericopsis Caespitosi |
| General | Fir-leafed Penstemon
This species is similar to and probably closely related to P. linarioides and P. retrorsus.
Blooms: June to July. |
| Anther | Spreading widely, 1 mm long, blue-black, open across the connective with toothed suture edges on cell openings. |
| Staminode | Included, flat, scarcely enlarged at tip, densely bearded over length with golden-yellow hairs. |
| Leaves | All cauline, to 1-1.2 cm (3/8”) long & 0.8-1.2 mm wide, thickened, dull pale green above and beneath, not veined, sparsely downy above or hairless, entire, stemless, linear, acute. |
| Stems | tufted (mat-forming), evergreen, much branched, prostrate and ascending, spreading less than 5-20 cm (2-8”) tall, from a thick woody caudex, although often with long woody prostrate stems, densely grayish-puberulent (grey-downy) with reflexed hairs. |
| Inflorescense | Narrow, 1-4 fascicles (leaf-like bracts) each of 2 axillary, shortened branches, each of these bearing usually 1 flower, secund (one-sided), glandular-pubescent (sticky hairs). |
| Corolla | 12-15 mm (to 3/8”) long, light to bright blue, throat scarcely inflated, flattened and 2-ridged within underneath, upper lobes united, arched, projecting, lower lobes united, spreading, externally glandular-downy. |
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| Calyx | 4-5 mm (1/8”) long, sepals lanceolate-pointed, with thin-edged margins, slightly sticky-downy. |
| Habitat | Pinyon-juniper, oak and sagebrush communities with gravelly limestone soil, drylands, 1300-2500m (5700-7600’) elev. |
| Range | Fish Lake Plateau, Sevier Co., Spanish Fork Cyn, Utah Co., Central UT |
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