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WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/24/22):
Penstemon hirsutus
FAMILY
Plantaginaceae
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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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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
TO LEARN MORE about this plant, look it up in a good book!
- All About South Carolina Wildflowers (Midgley, 1999) p216
- Wildflowers in the Field and Forest: Northeastern US (Clemants & Gracie, 2006) p054
- Wildflowers of Tennessee (Carman, 2005) p246
- Wildflowers of Tennessee, the Ohio Valley, and the Southern Appalachians (Horn, Cathcart, Hemmerly, & Duhl, 2005) p290
- Wildflowers of the Southern Mountains (Smith, 1998) p154