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Cleveland's beardtongue

Penstemon clevelandii

Cleveland's beardtongue
Photo: (c) nmoorhatch, some rights reserved (CC BY), CC BY 4.0
Family
Plantaginaceae (Plantain family)
Grows as
Perennial
Native range
S. California to Mexico (Baja California Norte)
Climate
subtropical

About

Penstemon clevelandii is a species of penstemon known by the common name Cleveland penstemon. It is native to southern California and Baja California, where it grows in mountain and desert habitat such as scrub, woodland, and chaparral.

Where it grows

The range of Penstemon clevelandii is in southern California and the Mexican state of Baja California. In California it is found in just Los Angeles, Riverside, San Bernardino, and San Diego counties. Within them grows in the Peninsular Ranges, the San Jacinto Mountains, the Sonoran Desert, and some mountains in the Mojave. In Baja California the species grows on the desert side of Sierra de Juárez as far south as Bahía de los Ángeles.

Other Penstemon plants

Firleaf beardtongue · Stemless beardtongue · Sharpleaf penstemon · Los Alamos beardtongue · Alberta beardtongue · White penstemon · White River Beardtongue · Whitemargin beardtongue · Gilia beardtongue · Penstemon angelicus · Siskiyou beardtongue · Broadbeard beardtongue

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Penstemon clevelandii 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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