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WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/24/22):
Penstemon canescens
FAMILY
Plantaginaceae
Go to FSUS key
Dig deeper at SERNEC, a consortium of southeastern herbaria.
Read more about Appalachian Beardtongue at Vascular Plants of North Carolina.
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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USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / Britton, N.L., and A. Brown. 1913 pnd_peca8_001_lvd
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JK Marlow jkm0505l_03
May Haywood County NC
Corneille Bryan Native Garden
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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).
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JK Marlow jkm200508_4703
May Pickens County SC
Glassy Mountain Heritage Preserve
Lower bracts of inflorescence reduced, much smaller than the cauline leaves, per Weakley's Flora.
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JK Marlow jkm200508_4705
May Pickens County SC
Glassy Mountain Heritage Preserve
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JK Marlow jkm200508_4705b
May Pickens County SC
Glassy Mountain Heritage Preserve
Stem leaves usually sharply serrate, per Manual of Vascular Plants of NE US & Adjacent Canada (Gleason & Cronquist, 1991).
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JK Marlow jkm200508_4718
May Pickens County SC
Glassy Mountain Heritage Preserve
Corolla throat strongly 2-ridged on its floor [shown here upside down], per Weakley's Flora (2020).
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JK Marlow jkm200508_4746
May Pickens County SC
Glassy Mountain Heritage Preserve
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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
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)
Click here to see a map, notes, and images from Weakley's Flora of the Southeastern US.
Click here to see a map showing all occurrences known to SERNEC, a consortium of southeastern herbaria. (Zoom in to see more detail.)
LEAVES:
Simple
Basal rosette & opposite
FLOWER:
Spring/Summer
Pinkish/ Pale violet
Bisexual
Bilaterally symmetrical
5 sepals
2-lipped 5-lobed tubular corolla
4 fertile stamens & 1 staminode bearded with yellow trichomes
Superior ovary
FRUIT:
Spring/Summer
Capsule
TO LEARN MORE about this plant, look it up in a good book!
- All About South Carolina Wildflowers (Midgley, 1999) p216
- Great Smoky Mountains Wildflowers (Campbell, Hutson, Sharp, & Hutson, 1962) p052
- Newcomb's Wildflower Guide (Newcomb, 1977) p102
- Wildflowers of the Atlantic Southeast (Cotterman, Waitt, & Weakley, 2019) p328
- Wildflowers of the Eastern United States (Duncan & Duncan, 1999) p088
- Wildflowers in the Field and Forest: Northeastern US (Clemants & Gracie, 2006) p054
- Wild Flowers of NC, 2nd edition (Justice, Bell, & Lindsey, 2005) p225
- Field Guide to the Wildflowers of Georgia (Chafin, 2016) p332
- Wildflowers of Tennessee (Carman, 2005) p245
- Wildflowers of Tennessee, the Ohio Valley, and the Southern Appalachians (Horn, Cathcart, Hemmerly, & Duhl, 2005) p290
- Wildflowers of the Southern Mountains (Smith, 1998) p154