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Penstemon canescens
Penstemon canescens, commonly known as the gray beardtongue or Appalachian beardtongue, is a species of penstemon in the family Plantaginaceae. It is native to woodlands, forest edges, and roadsides of the southeastern United States and flowers May through July. It is a perennial herb producing stems reaching 80 cm (31 in) in maximum height.
Penstemon canescens is native to the eastern United States as far north as Pennsylvania and as far south as Alabama. Its range extends west to Illinois. In Pennsylvania it grows in the south central mountain counties such as Snyder, Huntingdon, and Bedford. It extends through much of Virginia, but more in the western mountain counties while in West Virginia it is mainly found in the east and south. Similarly it grows in the farthest west portions of North Carolina and three counties at the western tip of South Carolina. It is almost entirely confined to the northern counties of Georgia, with an outlier in Rockdale. It is found in six widely scattered counties in Alabama while mostly growing in the eastern half of Tennessee with a few scattered locations in the west. The range is also widely scattered in Kentucky while being found in mostly southern counties of Indiana. In found in just Franklin County, Illinois and Lawrence County, Ohio while the locations of occurrences is not recorded for Maryland.
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Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Penstemon canescens 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.
