penstemon

1. Large genus of subshrubs or herbs having showy blue or purple or red or yellow or white flowers;
   Mostly western North America (synset 112905283)
   is a type of: asterid dicot genus - genus of more or less advanced dicotyledonous herbs and some trees and shrubs
   member holonym:

   • golden-beard penstemon, penstemon barbatus - plant of southwestern United States having long open clusters of scarlet flowers with yellow hairs on lower lip
   • penstemon centranthifolius, scarlet bugler - plant with bright red tubular flowers in long narrow clusters near tips of erect stems; coastal ranges from central California southward
   • red shrubby penstemon, redwood penstemon - low branching dark green shrub with bunches of brick-red flowers at ends of branches; coastal ranges and foothills of northern California
   • penstemon cyananthus, platte river penstemon - erect plant with blue-violet flowers in rings near tips of stems; Idaho to Utah and Wyoming
   • davidson's penstemon, penstemon davidsonii - mat-forming plant with blue and lavender flowers clustered on short erect stems; British Columbia to northern California
   • hot-rock penstemon, penstemon deustus - stems in clumps with cream-colored flowers; found from Washington to Wyoming and southward to California and Utah
   • jones' penstemon, penstemon dolius - low plant with light blue and violet flowers in short clusters near tips of stems; Nevada to Utah
   • lowbush penstemon, penstemon fruticosus, shrubby penstemon - low bushy plant with large showy pale lavender or blue-violet flowers in narrow clusters at ends of stems
   • narrow-leaf penstemon, penstemon linarioides - plant having small narrow leaves and blue-violet flowers in long open clusters; Utah and Colorado to New Mexico and Arizona
   • mountain pride, penstemon newberryi - mat-forming plant with deep pink flowers on short erect leafy stems; rocky places at high elevations from Oregon to California
   • balloon flower, penstemon palmeri, scented penstemon - fragrant puffed-up white to reddish-pink flowers in long narrow clusters on erect stems; Arizona to New Mexico and Utah
   • parry's penstemon, penstemon parryi - erect stems with pinkish-lavender flowers in long interrupted clusters; Arizona
   • cliff penstemon, penstemon rupicola, rock penstemon - one of the West's most beautiful wildflowers; large brilliant pink or rose flowers in many racemes above thick mats of stems and leaves; ledges and cliffs from Washington to California
   • penstemon rydbergii, rydberg's penstemon - plant with whorls of small dark blue-violet flowers; Washington to Wyoming and south to California and Colorado
   • cascade penstemon, penstemon serrulatus - whorls of deep blue to dark purple flowers at tips of erect leafy stems; moist places from British Columbia to Oregon
   • penstemon whippleanus, whipple's penstemon - wine and lavender to purple and black flowers in several clusters on the upper half of leafy stems; Montana south through the Rocky Mountains to Arizona and New Mexico
   belongs to: family scrophulariaceae, figwort family, foxglove family, scrophulariaceae - a family of dicotyledonous plants of the order Polemoniales; includes figwort and snapdragon and foxglove and toadflax and speedwell and mullein; in some classifications placed in the order Scrophulariales
   same as: genus penstemon

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