Penstemon grinnellii var. scrophularioides

Plant Information

Species:

grinnellii

Species Authority:

Eastw.

Variety:

scrophularioides

Variety Authority:

(M.E. Jones) Munz

Subgenus:

Penstemon

Section:

Peltanthera

Subsection:

Peltanthera

Habit:

bush

Habit Woodiness:

suffrutescent

Lifespan:

long-lived

Plant Height - Min:

3.00dm

Plant Height - Max:

8.00dm

Habitat Description:

Pinyon and juniper woodlands.

Distribution Range:

Occasionally in the South Coast Range and the southern Sierra Nevada, common from the Greenhorn Range and Mt. Pinos southward through the mountains to the San Jacinto Mts., all in California. Type locality: Mt. Wilson.

Elevation - Min:

800.00m

Elevation - Max:

2900.00m

Other Notes:

From field and garden comparisons it is evident that this species is clearly and nearly set off from P. palmeri of the deserts by a number of characters, whose cumulative effect is much more strikingly manifest in a side by side comparison of living plants than in an examination of herbarium sheets.

First Bloom:

April

Last Bloom:

July

Chromosome Number:

2n = 16