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Snapdragon penstemon

Keckiella antirrhinoides

Also called Chaparral Beardtongue

Snapdragon penstemon
Photo: Stickpen, Public domain
Family
Plantaginaceae (Plantain family)
Grows as
Shrub
Native range
S. California to Mexico (Baja California Norte, Sonora)
Climate
desert or dry shrubland

About

Keckiella antirrhinoides (formerly Penstemon antirrhinoides) is a species of flowering shrub in the plantain family known by the common names snapdragon penstemon and chaparral beardtongue.

It is native to the Mojave Desert and Sonoran Deserts of California, Arizona, and northern Baja California. It is also found in the chaparral—Colorado Desert ecotone of the Peninsular Ranges.

Where it grows

Snapdragon penstemons are native to northwestern Mexico and the southwestern United States. In Mexico it is grows in both Baja California and in Sonora. In the US it is found in nine counties in the western two-thirds of Arizona, but just Clark County at the southern tip of Nevada.In California it is known from San Bernardino, Riverside, Los Angeles, Orange, and San Diego counties in southern California.

Other Keckiella plants

Bush beardtongue · Heartleaf keckiella · Redwood keckiella · Lemmon's keckiella · Rothrock's keckiella · Scarlet keckiella · Keckiellas

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Keckiella antirrhinoides by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts are shared under the same licence.

Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.

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