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Gairdner's beardtongue

Penstemon gairdneri

Also called Gairdner's Penstemon

Gairdner's beardtongue
Photo: Lindsey Salmonson https://www.inaturalist.org/people/lindsey09, CC BY 4.0
Family
Plantaginaceae (Plantain family)
Grows as
Perennial
Native range
C. Washington to E. Oregon
Climate
temperate

About

Penstemon gairdneri is a species of perennial plant in the Plantaginaceae family with the common name Gairdner's beardtongue. It is native to Washington, Oregon, and Idaho in the western United States.

Where it grows

The range of Penstemon gairdneri as a species extends from north central Washington state in Okanogan County southward to Oregon, growing east of the Cascade Range. In Oregon it grows through much eastern of Oregon from Wasco and Lake counties east to Idaho. There it mainly grows in an area from Idaho County south to Canyon County, but with an isolated occurrence to the east in Butte County.

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 gairdneri 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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