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Penstemon eatonii
Also called Eaton's Penstemon, Eaton's Beardtongue, Firecracker Beardtongue
Penstemon eatonii is a species of flowering plant in the genus Penstemon, known by the common name firecracker penstemon. It is native to the Western United States from Southern California to the Rocky Mountains. It grows in many types of desert, woodland, forest, and open plateau habitat.
Penstemon eatonii is native to the southwestern United States, largely in southern Great Basin and the Colorado River Basin. At its eastern edges it grows in the most western counties of Colorado from Mesa County south to Four Corners. It is only found occasionally in the farthest northwest corner of New Mexico. In Utah it is found from the Wasatch Mountains southward. Its range extends through almost all of Arizona, but only in the southern part of Nevada with an isolated population in the north in Humboldt County. In the far west it reaches California grows in the Mojave Desert and the Sonoran Desert and reaches the San Bernardino Mountains. It also is reported in Wyoming and Idaho, but without specific locations.
A person from the Shoshone in Nevada interviewed by Beatty Train in the 1930s reported that red flowered penstemons, such as Penstemon eatoni, could be used to aid in healing burns. The whole plant would be boiled and then used as a wash to aid skin healing and reduce pain.
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Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Penstemon eatonii 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.
