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Penstemon rydbergii
Also called Rydberg's Beardtongue, Rydberg Penstemon, Meadow Beardtongue
Penstemon rydbergii, commonly known as Rydberg's penstemon or meadow penstemon, is a perennial plant in the plantain family (Plantaginaceae) that grows in damp, grassy meadows of the Great Basin and Rocky Mountains of the western United States.
Although small flowered, it is sometimes grown in gardens particularly by people living in areas moist climates. It is propagated by seed and requires twelve weeks of cold-moist stratification for good levels of sprouting.
Meadow penstemons are native to the western United States from the Rocky Mountains to the Pacific States. In New Mexico they are only found in the northern mountainous parts of the state. In Colorado it likewise is known from the western, mountainous portion of the state and is only known from Carbon and Fremont counties in Wyoming. Similarly, it is only recorded in four of the southwestern counties of Montana. It is found in almost all parts of the Great Basin, but is not found in eastern Nevada. It is found in southern Idaho and not the northern panhandle. It generally does not grow west of the Cascade Mountains in Washington and Oregon. In California it grows in the northern Coast Ranges, the Klamath Mountains, and in the higher parts of the Sierra Nevada in the central part of the state.
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Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Penstemon rydbergii 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.
