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| Attribute | The current selection is Penstemon_cinicola |
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| Classification | Penstemon
Penstemon Penstemon Proceri |
| General | Ash Penstemon
The name cinicola means “dwelling in ash,” in reference to its habitat on volacanic ash soils. It seems to be most closely related to P. procerus var. brachyanthus and shares it range.
Blooms: June and July. |
| Anther | 0.3-.5mm (<1/16”) long, smooth, sacs rotund, open flat and opposite. |
| Staminode | Included, expanded at tip and bearded very moderately with short yellow hairs. |
| Leaves | Stem leaves 2.5-6 cm (1-2+”) long, linear, entire, smooth of velvety, often arched and channeled, basal rosette lacking, not much reduced upward below the upper inflorescence, taped to very slender petioles on the lower stem. |
| Stems | 1.5-4 dm (6-16”) tall, slender, mostly upright, few to several growing in a cushion, often with short, sterile leafy shoots at the base, smooth or finely fuzzy. |
| Inflorescense | 3-7 narrow, many-flowered verticillasters, well spaced below to crowded above, the lower stems on robust plants to 5.5 cm (2+”) long, held tightly against the stems, mostly smooth to velvety. |
| Corolla | Tiny, 5-10 mm (3/16-3/8”) long, dark blue to purple, lighter or white in the throat, the tub not much expanded, 2-ridged palate moderately to strongly tufted with yellow hairs, 2-lipped, lower lip nearly straight, the upper lip reflexed. |
| Flower Color | |
| Calyx | 1.5-2.5 mm (1/8”) long, sepals mostly broad at base and end abruptly with short sharp tip (mucronate), broadly thinned and often ragged on edges. |
| Habitat | Dry, rocky to sandy volcanic |
| Range | East base of the Cascades in Deschutes and w Crook Cos. to Lake Co., OR, to n CA. |
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