NameThatPlant.net: Penstemon hirsutus

Spermatophytes (seed plants): Angiosperms (flowering plants): Eudicots: Core Eudicots: Asterids: Lamiids: Lamiales

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

Dig deeper at SERNEC, a consortium of southeastern herbaria.

SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Penstemon hirsutus FAMILY Scrophulariaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH Flora of North America

Penstemon hirsutus

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

Penstemon hirsutus

COMMON NAME:
Northeastern Beardtongue, Hairy Beardtongue

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image of Penstemon hirsutus, Northeastern Beardtongue, Hairy Beardtongue

USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / Britton, N.L., and A. Brown. 1913 pnd_pehi_001_lvd

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

SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Penstemon hirsutus FAMILY Scrophulariaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH Flora of North America
Penstemon hirsutus

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

2898

Forb
Perennial

Habitat: Dry woodlands, forests, and fields, per Weakley's Flora

Native north of the Carolinas

Waif(s)

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LEAVES:
Simple
Basal rosette & opposite

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

FRUIT:
Summer?
Capsule

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