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Spermatophytes (seed plants): Angiosperms (flowering plants): Eudicots: Core Eudicots: Asterids: Lamiids: Lamiales

WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/24/22):
Penstemon canescens   FAMILY Plantaginaceae   Go to FSUS key



INCLUDING PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Penstemon canescens   FAMILY Scrophulariaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH Flora of North America

Penstemon canescens

INCLUDING VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 166-14-002:

Penstemon canescens   FAMILY Scrophulariaceae

INCLUDING Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)

Penstemon brittonorum

SYNONYMOUS WITH Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)

Penstemon canescens

 

COMMON NAME:
Appalachian Beardtongue, Gray's Beardtongue, Eastern Gray Beardtongue


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image of Penstemon canescens, Appalachian Beardtongue, Gray's Beardtongue, Eastern Gray Beardtongue

USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / Britton, N.L., and A. Brown. 1913    pnd_peca8_001_lvd

        

image of Penstemon canescens, Appalachian Beardtongue, Gray's Beardtongue, Eastern Gray Beardtongue

JK Marlow    jkm0505l_03

May    Haywood County    NC

Corneille Bryan Native Garden

image of Penstemon canescens, Appalachian Beardtongue, Gray's Beardtongue, Eastern Gray Beardtongue

JK Marlow    jkm0505l_03b

May    Haywood County    NC

Corneille Bryan Native Garden

Corolla 24-32mm long, throat gradually but obviously inflated to 10mm in diam, per Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968).

image of Penstemon canescens, Appalachian Beardtongue, Gray's Beardtongue, Eastern Gray Beardtongue

Ron Lance    rwl_penstemon_canescens

June    Jackson County    NC

Big Ridge Preserve

 

 

WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/24/22):
Penstemon canescens   FAMILY Plantaginaceae

INCLUDING PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Penstemon canescens   FAMILY Scrophulariaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH Flora of North America
Penstemon canescens

INCLUDING VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 166-14-002:
Penstemon canescens   FAMILY Scrophulariaceae

INCLUDING Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Penstemon brittonorum

SYNONYMOUS WITH Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Penstemon canescens

 

Find by SCIENTIFIC NAME:

1044

Forb
Perennial

Habitat: woodlands, glades, forest edges, rocky woodlands, roadsides, per Weakley's Flora

Native to the Carolinas & Georgia

Common in Mountains & NC Piedmont (rare elsewhere in GA-NC-SC)

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LEAVES:
Simple
Basal rosette & opposite

FLOWER:
Spring/Summer
Pinkish/ Pale violet
Bilaterally symmetrical
5 sepals
2-lipped 5-lobed tubular corolla
4 fertile stamens & 1 staminode bearded with yellow trichomes
Superior ovary
Bisexual

FRUIT:
Spring/Summer
Capsule

 

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