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Firleaf Beardtongue (Penstemon abietinus)

Description

Small subshrub 5- 18cm tall. Leaves linear to filiform, 7-13mm long, sometimes folded, entire, acute or mucronate. Flowers 1.2-1.5cm long, blue-violet. Loose, limestone-derived soils, usually in pinyon-juniper-oak communities at 2000-2600m on Fish Lake Plateau, Utah. Intermediate in stature and habit between P.-crandallii-and P.-linarioides.

Taxonomic tree

  • Domain: Eukarya

    • Kingdom: Plantae

      • Phylum: Magnoliophyta

        • Class: Magnoliopsida

          • Order: Lamiales

            • Family: Plantaginaceae

              • Genus: Penstemon