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Many specimens of Penstemon from the Appalachian Piedmont combine morphological features of P. australis and P. canescens. These plants usually have equally developed cyme branches (as in P. canescens) but ascending or erect peduncles and pedicels (as in P. australis). Leaf shape generally is intermediate between P. australis and P. canescens. F.W. Pennell in the 1930s annotated most such specimens as P. australis. F.S. Crosswhite (1965e) also included these specimens in his concept of P. australis, assigning them subspecies status.... The relationship of these plants remains unclear; they will key to P. canescens or P. laxiflorus. Read more at Flora of North America.
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#Penstemon sp
COMMON NAME:
Beardtongue [Glassy Mtn HP]
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![image of Penstemon sp. [of the Appalachian Piedmont], Beardtongue [Glassy Mtn HP]](javascript:buildPicLink('/Images/ImagesFire/jkm23/jkm230418_2611.jpg','4770','39592'))
JK Marlow jkm230418_2611
April Pickens County SC
Glassy Mountain Heritage Preserve
![image of Penstemon sp. [of the Appalachian Piedmont], Beardtongue [Glassy Mtn HP]](javascript:buildPicLink('/Images/ImagesFire/jkm23/jkm230418_2613.jpg','4770','39593'))
JK Marlow jkm230418_2613
April Pickens County SC
Glassy Mountain Heritage Preserve
![image of Penstemon sp. [of the Appalachian Piedmont], Beardtongue [Glassy Mtn HP]](javascript:buildPicLink('/Images/ImagesFire/jkm20/jkm200508_4703.jpg','4770','33454'))
JK Marlow jkm200508_4703
May Pickens County SC
Glassy Mountain Heritage Preserve
![image of Penstemon sp. [of the Appalachian Piedmont], Beardtongue [Glassy Mtn HP]](javascript:buildPicLink('/Images/ImagesFire/jkm20/jkm200508_4705.jpg','4770','33455'))
JK Marlow jkm200508_4705
May Pickens County SC
Glassy Mountain Heritage Preserve
![image of Penstemon sp. [of the Appalachian Piedmont], Beardtongue [Glassy Mtn HP]](javascript:buildPicLink('/Images/ImagesFire/jkm20/jkm200508_4705b.jpg','4770','33456'))
JK Marlow jkm200508_4705b
May Pickens County SC
Glassy Mountain Heritage Preserve
![image of Penstemon sp. [of the Appalachian Piedmont], Beardtongue [Glassy Mtn HP]](javascript:buildPicLink('/Images/ImagesFire/jkm20/jkm200508_4718.jpg','4770','33460'))
JK Marlow jkm200508_4718
May Pickens County SC
Glassy Mountain Heritage Preserve
(upside down)
![image of Penstemon sp. [of the Appalachian Piedmont], Beardtongue [Glassy Mtn HP]](javascript:buildPicLink('/Images/ImagesFire/jkm20/jkm200508_4746.jpg','4770','33474'))
JK Marlow jkm200508_4746
May Pickens County SC
Glassy Mountain Heritage Preserve
![image of Penstemon sp. [of the Appalachian Piedmont], Beardtongue [Glassy Mtn HP]](javascript:buildPicLink('/Images/ImagesFire/jkm23/jkm230509_3138.jpg','4770','39791'))
JK Marlow jkm230509_3138
May Pickens County SC
Glassy Mountain Heritage Preserve
![image of Penstemon sp. [of the Appalachian Piedmont], Beardtongue [Glassy Mtn HP]](javascript:buildPicLink('/Images/ImagesFire/jkm23/jkm230509_3140.jpg','4770','39792'))
JK Marlow jkm230509_3140
May Pickens County SC
Glassy Mountain Heritage Preserve
Oddly, the plant pictured here (and in 3138-3157) did not have the expected dark purple guidelines.
![image of Penstemon sp. [of the Appalachian Piedmont], Beardtongue [Glassy Mtn HP]](javascript:buildPicLink('/Images/ImagesFire/jkm23/jkm230509_3144.jpg','4770','39793'))
JK Marlow jkm230509_3144
May Pickens County SC
Glassy Mountain Heritage Preserve
![image of Penstemon sp. [of the Appalachian Piedmont], Beardtongue [Glassy Mtn HP]](javascript:buildPicLink('/Images/ImagesFire/jkm23/jkm230509_3145.jpg','4770','39794'))
JK Marlow jkm230509_3145
May Pickens County SC
Glassy Mountain Heritage Preserve
![image of Penstemon sp. [of the Appalachian Piedmont], Beardtongue [Glassy Mtn HP]](javascript:buildPicLink('/Images/ImagesFire/jkm23/jkm230509_3150.jpg','4770','39795'))
JK Marlow jkm230509_3150
May Pickens County SC
Glassy Mountain Heritage Preserve
![image of Penstemon sp. [of the Appalachian Piedmont], Beardtongue [Glassy Mtn HP]](javascript:buildPicLink('/Images/ImagesFire/jkm23/jkm230509_3155.jpg','4770','39796'))
JK Marlow jkm230509_3155
May Pickens County SC
Glassy Mountain Heritage Preserve
![image of Penstemon sp. [of the Appalachian Piedmont], Beardtongue [Glassy Mtn HP]](javascript:buildPicLink('/Images/ImagesFire/jkm23/jkm230509_3157.jpg','4770','39797'))
JK Marlow jkm230509_3157
May Pickens County SC
Glassy Mountain Heritage Preserve
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#Penstemon sp
4770
Forb
Perennial
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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LEAVES:
Simple
FLOWER:
Spring/Summer
Bilaterally symmetrical
5 sepals
2-lipped 5-lobed tubular corolla
4 fertile stamens & 1 bearded staminode
Superior ovary
Bisexual
FRUIT:
Summer
Capsule
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