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WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/24/22):
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
Flora of North America
Penstemon laevigatus
INCLUDED WITHIN
Manual of Vascular Plants of NE US & Adjacent Canada (Gleason & Cronquist,1991)
Penstemon laevigatus
SYNONYMOUS WITH
VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 166-14-006:
Penstemon laevigatus
FAMILY
Scrophulariaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Notes on eastern American species of Penstemon (Bennett, 1963)
Penstemon laevigatus ssp. laevigatus
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 OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/24/22):
Penstemon laevigatus
FAMILY
Plantaginaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Penstemon laevigatus
FAMILY
Scrophulariaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Flora of North America
Penstemon laevigatus
INCLUDED WITHIN
Manual of Vascular Plants of NE US & Adjacent Canada (Gleason & Cronquist,1991)
Penstemon laevigatus
SYNONYMOUS WITH
VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 166-14-006:
Penstemon laevigatus
FAMILY
Scrophulariaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Notes on eastern American species of Penstemon (Bennett, 1963)
Penstemon laevigatus ssp. laevigatus
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Penstemon penstemon
1046
Forb
Perennial
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
Common (rare in NC Mountains)
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