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Penstemon newberryi
Also called Newberry's Penstemon, Newberry's Beardtongue
Mountain pride is a low, mat-forming subshrub native to rocky, high-elevation slopes in the mountains of northern California, Oregon and Nevada, grown for its magenta tubular flowers. It needs very sharp drainage and full sun to thrive.
Penstemon newberryi is a species of penstemon known by the common name mountain pride or Newberry's penstemon. It is native to the mountains of northern California, Oregon, and Nevada, where it grows in rocky habitat, often at high elevation, such as talus. It is a bushy, mat-forming subshrub growing up to 30 centimetres (12 inches) tall. The leaves are mostly basal on the plant, oblong or oval and toothed, measuring 1 to 4 centimetres (0.4 to 1.6 in) in length, with a few smaller pairs along the stem. The glandular inflorescence bears showy magenta flowers 2 to over 3 cm (0.8 to over 1.2 in) in length. The flower is generally tubular or funnel-shaped and has a coating of short to long and curly hairs in the mouth and on the staminode.
In cultivation in the UK, it has received the Royal Horticultural Society's Award of Garden Merit.
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Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Penstemon newberryi by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts and the care summary drawn from them are shared under the same licence.
The care summary was written by AI (Claude, Anthropic) from the sources on this page, with general growing knowledge where they are silent. Check before relying on it.
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.
