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pen·ste·mon  (pn-stmn, pnst-mn)

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Any of numerous plants of the genus Penstemon, native to North America and eastern Asia, having opposite leaves, flowers with a usually two-lipped, variously colored corolla, and capsules containing many seeds. Also called beardtongue.

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[New Latin Pnstmn, genus name : Greek pente, five; see penk^we in Indo-European roots + Greek stmn, thread; see st- in Indo-European roots.]

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Penstemon - large genus of subshrubs or herbs having showy blue or purple or red or yellow or white flowers; mostly western North America genus Penstemon asterid dicot genus - genus of more or less advanced dicotyledonous herbs and some trees and shrubs family Scrophulariaceae, figwort family, foxglove family, Scrophulariaceae - a family of dicotyledonous plants of the order Polemoniales; includes figwort and snapdragon and foxglove and toadflax and speedwell and mullein; in some classifications placed in the order Scrophulariales golden-beard penstemon, Penstemon barbatus - plant of southwestern United States having long open clusters of scarlet flowers with yellow hairs on lower lip Penstemon centranthifolius, scarlet bugler - plant with bright red tubular flowers in long narrow clusters near tips of erect stems; coastal ranges from central California southward red shrubby penstemon, redwood penstemon - low branching dark green shrub with bunches of brick-red flowers at ends of branches; coastal ranges and foothills of northern California Penstemon cyananthus, Platte River penstemon - erect plant with blue-violet flowers in rings near tips of stems; Idaho to Utah and Wyoming Davidson's penstemon, Penstemon davidsonii - mat-forming plant with blue and lavender flowers clustered on short erect stems; British Columbia to northern California hot-rock penstemon, Penstemon deustus - stems in clumps with cream-colored flowers; found from Washington to Wyoming and southward to California and Utah Jones' penstemon, Penstemon dolius - low plant with light blue and violet flowers in short clusters near tips of stems; Nevada to Utah lowbush penstemon, Penstemon fruticosus, shrubby penstemon - low bushy plant with large showy pale lavender or blue-violet flowers in narrow clusters at ends of stems narrow-leaf penstemon, Penstemon linarioides - plant having small narrow leaves and blue-violet flowers in long open clusters; Utah and Colorado to New Mexico and Arizona mountain pride, Penstemon newberryi - mat-forming plant with deep pink flowers on short erect leafy stems; rocky places at high elevations from Oregon to California balloon flower, Penstemon palmeri, scented penstemon - fragrant puffed-up white to reddish-pink flowers in long narrow clusters on erect stems; Arizona to New Mexico and Utah Parry's penstemon, Penstemon parryi - erect stems with pinkish-lavender flowers in long interrupted clusters; Arizona cliff penstemon, Penstemon rupicola, rock penstemon - one of the West's most beautiful wildflowers; large brilliant pink or rose flowers in many racemes above thick mats of stems and leaves; ledges and cliffs from Washington to California Penstemon rydbergii, Rydberg's penstemon - plant with whorls of small dark blue-violet flowers; Washington to Wyoming and south to California and Colorado cascade penstemon, Penstemon serrulatus - whorls of deep blue to dark purple flowers at tips of erect leafy stems; moist places from British Columbia to Oregon Penstemon whippleanus, Whipple's penstemon - wine and lavender to purple and black flowers in several clusters on the upper half of leafy stems; Montana south through the Rocky Mountains to Arizona and New Mexico