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| Attribute | The current selection is Penstemon_concinnus |
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| Classification | Penstemon
Penstemon Cristati |
| General | Elegant or Symmetric Penstemon.
Blooms: Late May and June. |
| Anther | 0.5-0.9 mm long, about a s long as broad, opening the full length and in flattened shield shape, blue, essentially smooth. |
| Staminode | Exserted, white or pale-yellow bearded, coiled at tip, fertile stamens exserted. |
| Leaves | Mostly basal, 3-5 cm (1 ¼-2”) long & 2.5 mm (1/8”) wide, linear to narrowly lanceolate, entire or sometimes obscurely toothed, smooth or rarely sparsely puberulent, the basal ones longer, gradually tapering to a petiolar (stemmed) base, the cauline ones stemless. |
| Stems | Short-lived perennial herb, 1-1.8 dm (4-7”) tall, stems suberect to erect, few to several clustered on a thick crown, this surmounting a taproot, herbage finely retrorsely puberulent (fuzz pointing backward). |
| Inflorescense | Thyrse narrow, interrupted, the cymes compressed, the axil, peduncles and pedicels (stems) glandular-pubescent (tacky hairs). |
| Corolla | Tiny, 8-11 mm (3/8”) long, lips violet with darker violet lines in the throat, moderately bell-shaped, upper lip projecting, the lobes of lower lip reflexed, glandular-puberulent (sticky fuzz) externally, the palate white-bearded. |
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| Calyx | 6-8 mm (1/4”) long, the segments lanceolate, acute, glandular-pubescent, the edges sometimes ragged toward base. |
| Habitat | Gravelly alluvial soils in pinyon-juniper woodlands, 1600-2000 m (5300-6700’) elev. |
| Range | Western UT in the Burbank Hills, Wah Wah Mts. and Needle Range, Millard and Beaver Cos. and adj. NV in Snake Creek, Snake Range, White Pine Co., NV. |
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