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WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/24/22):
Penstemon calycosus   FAMILY Plantaginaceae   Go to FSUS key



SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Penstemon calycosus   FAMILY Scrophulariaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH Flora of North America

Penstemon calycosus

INCLUDED WITHIN Manual of Vascular Plants of NE US & Adjacent Canada (Gleason & Cronquist,1991)

Penstemon laevigatus

SYNONYMOUS WITH Notes on eastern American species of Penstemon (Bennett, 1963)

Penstemon laevigatus ssp. calycosus

SYNONYMOUS WITH Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)

Penstemon calycosus

 

COMMON NAME:
Longsepal Beardtongue


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image of Penstemon calycosus, Longsepal Beardtongue

USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / Britton, N.L., and A. Brown. 1913    pnd_peca7_001_lvd

        

 

 

WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/24/22):
Penstemon calycosus   FAMILY Plantaginaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Penstemon calycosus   FAMILY Scrophulariaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH Flora of North America
Penstemon calycosus

INCLUDED WITHIN Manual of Vascular Plants of NE US & Adjacent Canada (Gleason & Cronquist,1991)
Penstemon laevigatus

SYNONYMOUS WITH Notes on eastern American species of Penstemon (Bennett, 1963)
Penstemon laevigatus ssp. calycosus

SYNONYMOUS WITH Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Penstemon calycosus

 

Find by SCIENTIFIC NAME:

2803

Forb
Perennial

Habitat: limestone ledges, other woodlands, per Weakley's Flora

Native to the Carolinas & Georgia

Rare

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LEAVES:
Simple
Basal rosette & opposite

FLOWER:
Spring/Summer
Purplish/ Bright violet usually paler inside
Bilaterally symmetrical
5 sepals
2-lipped 5-lobed tubular corolla
4 fertile stamens & 1 bearded staminode
Superior ovary
Bisexual

FRUIT:
Summer?
Brown
Capsule

 

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