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WEAKLEY'S FLORA (11/30/12):
Penstemon laevigatus
FAMILY
Plantaginaceae
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Dig deeper at SERNEC, a consortium of southeastern herbaria.
Read more about Smooth Beardtongue at Vascular Plants of North Carolina.
SYNONYMOUS WITH
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Penstemon laevigatus
FAMILY
Scrophulariaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 166-14-006:
Penstemon laevigatus
FAMILY
Scrophulariaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Penstemon penstemon
COMMON NAME:
Smooth Beardtongue, Eastern Beardtongue, Eastern Smooth Beardtongue
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USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / Britton, N.L., and A. Brown. 1913 pnd_pepe17_001_lvd
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Terry Holdsclaw tdh_p_laevigatus_0212
May Catawba County NC
Panicle narrow; the bracts reduced, not leaflike, per Vascular Flora of the Carolinas.
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Richard and Teresa Ware rtw_p_laevigatus
June
Corolla purplish, unlined or feebly lined with purple on the rounded floor, per Vascular Flora of the Carolinas.
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Richard and Teresa Ware rtw_p_laevigatus_13
June
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Richard and Teresa Ware rtw_p_laevigatus_13b
June
May be separated from P. australis or P. multiflorus by its dilated throat, per Atlantic Coastal Plain Wildflowers.
WEAKLEY'S FLORA (11/30/12):
Penstemon laevigatus
FAMILY
Plantaginaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Penstemon laevigatus
FAMILY
Scrophulariaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 166-14-006:
Penstemon laevigatus
FAMILY
Scrophulariaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Penstemon penstemon
1046
Forb
Perennial
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
Documented growing wild in GA NC SC
Common
Habitat: Low meadows, bottomlands, forest edges, hammocks, per Weakley's Flora
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LEAVES:
Simple
Basal rosette & opposite
FLOWER:
Spring/Summer
White/ Pale violet
Bisexual
Bilaterally symmetrical
5 sepals
2-lipped 5-lobed tubular corolla
4 fertile stamens (anthers brown) & 1 staminode bearded w light yellow trichomes
Superior ovary
FRUIT:
Summer
Brown
Capsule
TO LEARN MORE about this plant, look it up in a good book!
- All About South Carolina Wildflowers p216
- Atlantic Coastal Plain Wildflowers p163
- Gardening with Native Plants of the South p153
- Gardening with the Native Plants of Tennessee p156
- Newcomb's Wildflower Guide p102
- Wildflowers of the Atlantic Southeast p080
- Wildflowers of the Eastern United States p088
- Wildflowers in the Field and Forest p054
- Wildflowers of Tennessee, the Ohio Valley, and the Southern Appalachians p289
- Wildflowers of the Southern Mountains p154
- Wildflowers of the Sandhills Region p081