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WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/24/22):
Penstemon laevigatus
FAMILY
Plantaginaceae
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Dig deeper at SERNEC, a consortium of southeastern herbaria.
Read more about Smooth Beardtongue at Vascular Plants of North Carolina.
SYNONYMOUS WITH
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Penstemon laevigatus
FAMILY
Scrophulariaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH Flora of North America
Penstemon laevigatus
INCLUDED WITHIN Manual of Vascular Plants of NE US & Adjacent Canada (Gleason & Cronquist,1991)
Penstemon laevigatus
SYNONYMOUS WITH VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 166-14-006:
Penstemon laevigatus FAMILY Scrophulariaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH Notes on eastern American species of Penstemon (Bennett, 1963)
Penstemon laevigatus ssp. laevigatus
SYNONYMOUS WITH Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Penstemon penstemon
COMMON NAME:
Smooth Beardtongue, Eastern Beardtongue, Eastern Smooth Beardtongue
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USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / Britton, N.L., and A. Brown. 1913 pnd_pepe17_001_lvd
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Terry Holdsclaw tdh_p_laevigatus_0212
May Catawba County NC
Panicle narrow; the bracts reduced, not leaflike, per Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968).
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Richard and Teresa Ware rtw_p_laevigatus
June
Corolla purplish, unlined or feebly lined with purple on the rounded floor, per Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968).
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Richard and Teresa Ware rtw_p_laevigatus_13
June
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Richard and Teresa Ware rtw_p_laevigatus_13b
June
May be separated from P. australis or P. multiflorus by its dilated throat, per Atlantic Coastal Plain Wildflowers (Nelson, 2006).
WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/24/22):
Penstemon laevigatus
FAMILY
Plantaginaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Penstemon laevigatus
FAMILY
Scrophulariaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Flora of North America
Penstemon laevigatus
INCLUDED WITHIN
Manual of Vascular Plants of NE US & Adjacent Canada (Gleason & Cronquist,1991)
Penstemon laevigatus
SYNONYMOUS WITH
VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 166-14-006:
Penstemon laevigatus
FAMILY
Scrophulariaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Notes on eastern American species of Penstemon (Bennett, 1963)
Penstemon laevigatus ssp. laevigatus
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Penstemon penstemon
1046
Forb
Perennial
Habitat: Low meadows, bottomlands, forest edges, hammocks, per Weakley's Flora
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
Common (rare in NC Mountains)
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LEAVES:
Simple
Basal rosette & opposite
FLOWER:
Spring/Summer
White/ Pale violet
Bilaterally symmetrical
5 sepals
2-lipped 5-lobed tubular corolla
4 fertile stamens (anthers brown) & 1 staminode bearded w light yellow trichomes
Superior ovary
Bisexual
FRUIT:
Summer
Brown
Capsule
TO LEARN MORE about this plant, look it up in a good book!
- All About South Carolina Wildflowers (Midgley, 1999) p216
- Atlantic Coastal Plain Wildflowers (Nelson, 2006) p163
- Gardening with Native Plants of the South (Wasowski & Wasowski, 1994, 2020) p153
- Gardening with the Native Plants of Tennessee (Hunter, 2002) p156
- Newcomb's Wildflower Guide (Newcomb, 1977) p102
- Wildflowers of the Atlantic Southeast (Cotterman, Waitt, & Weakley, 2019) p080
- Wildflowers of the Eastern United States (Duncan & Duncan, 1999) p088
- Wildflowers in the Field and Forest: Northeastern US (Clemants & Gracie, 2006) p054
- Field Guide to the Wildflowers of Georgia (Chafin, 2016) p332
- Wildflowers of Tennessee, the Ohio Valley, and the Southern Appalachians (Horn, Cathcart, Hemmerly, & Duhl, 2005) p289
- Wildflowers of the Southern Mountains (Smith, 1998) p154
- Wildflowers of the Sandhills Region (Sorrie, 2011) p081
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