Penstemon leptanthus

Plant Information
Species: 
leptanthus
Species Authority: 
Pennell
Habit:
 
herbaceous perennial
Habit Woodiness:
 
suffrutescent
Lifespan: 
long-lived
Plant Height - Min: 
1.50dm
Plant Height - Max: 
2.50dm
Habitat Description: 
Known only from the type of collection, the locality of which is not certain.
Distribution Range: 
Possibly near Glenwood, Sevier County, Utah, at the north end of the Sevier Plateau.
Other Notes: 

Penstemon leptanthus, if from near Glenwood, is sympatric with P. wardii, a species with the same kind of canescent puberulence of the herbage, but with larger, glandular-puberulent flowers and a glabrous staminode.

First Bloom: 
June
Last Bloom: 
June
References: 

Holmgren NH. 1984. Penstemon and Keckiella. In Intermountain Flora, vol. 4. Ed. Arthur Cronquist et al. Bronx: The New York Botanical Garden.