Penstemon rydbergii var. oreocharis

Plant Information

Species:

rydbergii

Species Authority:

A. Nelson

Variety:

oreocharis

Variety Authority:

(Greene) N.H. Holmgren

Subgenus:

Penstemon

Section:

Penstemon

Subsection:

Proceri

Habit:

herbaceous perennial

Habit Woodiness:

herb

Lifespan:

long-lived

Plant Height - Min:

2.00dm

Plant Height - Max:

5.00dm

Habitat Description:

Moderately moist to dry slopes, meadows, and streambanks from the valleys to subalpine and alpine situations. Wet or dry meadows, lower Arid Transition Zone to Hudsonian Zone.

Distribution Range:

Cascade-Sierran axis of Oregon and California and west and north Nevada. Washington (Kittitas County) southward, mostly east of the Cascades, to Inyo and Fresno Counties, California; local in the Coast Range in Glenn County, California; east to western Idaho and northern Nevada.

Soil Type:

Moderately moist to dry soils.

Elevation - Min:

1300.00m

Elevation - Max:

3300.00m

Other Notes:

Variety rydbergii as circumscribed here may include an undescribed variety from the Rocky Mountains of Colorado where the plants are consistently noticeably pubescent and calyx-segments have exceptionally broad, deeply erose to lacerate-scarious margins.

First Bloom:

June

Last Bloom:

August

Chromosome Number:

2n = 16

References:

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