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Penstemon palmeri
Also called Scented Beardtongue, Palmer penstemon, Palmer's Beardtongue
Penstemon palmeri, known as scented penstemon or Palmer penstemon, is a perennial plant in the veronica family that grows widely in the western United States. It is notable for its showy, rounded flowers, and for being one of the few scented penstemons.
Penstemon palmeri is native to desert mountains from the eastern Mojave Desert in California, to eastern Nevada, northeastern Arizona, and New Mexico, and north through areas in Utah, Colorado, Wyoming, Idaho, and eastern Washington.
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Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Penstemon palmeri 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.
