FIGWORT FAMILY 769 



84. Penstemon nemorosus (Dougl.) Trautv. Woodland Penstemon. Fig. 4721 



Chelone nemorosa Dougl. ex Lindl. Bot. Reg. 14: pi. 1211. 1828. 



Apentostera triflora Raf. New Fl. 2: 73. 1837. 



Penstemon nemorosus Trautv. Bull. Acad. St. Petersb. 5: 345. 1839. 



Stems few, erect, from an unbranched woody caudex, puberulent, 3-8 dm. high. Leaves all 

 cauHne, equally spaced, thin, finely to coarsely serrate, lanceolate to ovate, mostly rounded 

 at base, 5-10 cm. long, 1.5-4 cm. wide, glabrous, or more or less puberulent beneath; thyrsus 

 glandular-pubescent, few-flowered and terminal, or more extensive and open and leafy; calyx 

 6-13 mm. high, the lobes lanceolate to ovate; corolla rose-purple to pale maroon-red, paler 

 ventrally, 25-35 mm. long, 8-11 mm. wide pressed, strongly plicate but glabrous withm, strongly 

 2-lipped, the lower lip much exceeding the upper ; fertile filaments retrorsely puberulent above, 

 hirsute at base, the staminode about two-thirds as long, densely short-bearded throughout. 

 n = 15. 



Woods, upper Transition Zone to Hudsonian Zone; largely west of the crest of the Cascades, Vancouver 

 Island through Washington and Oregon to northernmost California. Type locality: in the northwest of JNortU 

 America. June-Aug. 



85. Penstemon Rothrockii A. Gray. Rothrock's Penstemon. Fig. 4722. 



Penstemon Rothrockii A. Gray, Syn. Fl. N. Amer. 2^: 260. 1878. 

 Penstemon Shockteyi S. Wats. Proc. Amer. Acad. 23:265. 1888. 

 Penstemon scabridus Eastw. Bull. Torrey Club 32: 208. 1905. 



Low bush 3-6 dm. high, with numerous slender strict stems arising from the much branched 

 woody base, puberulent throughout, the foliage sparsely scabridulous, the inflorescence more 

 or less glandular. Leaves 5-15 mm. long, 2-7 mm. wide, subsessile, lance-oblong to ovate, 

 entire or undulate-denticulate; raceme spiciform, strict, the lower flowers geminate, the upper 

 often alternate; calyx 4-6 mm. high, the lobes lanceolate; corolla dull yellow with purplish 

 guide lines, 10-12 mm. long, 3-5 mm. wide pressed, the upper lip erect, the lower reflexed; 

 staminode glabrous. 



Rockv canyons, Upper Sonoran Zone to Canadian Zone; Mono, Inyo, and Tulare Counties, California, and 

 adjacent Nevada. Type locality: Little Olanche Mountain, California. June-Aug. 



Penstemon Rothrockii subsp. jacintensis (Abrams) Keck, Madroiio 3:204 1936. (Penstemon jacin- 

 tensis Abrams, Bull. Torrey Club 33: 445. 1906; P. Rothrockii var. ] acmtensis Mnnz Ji Jtn. Bull. b. Calit. 

 Acad. 23: 27. 1924.) Corolla 13-16 mm. long. Open forests, upper Transition Zone; San Jacinto Mountains, 

 Riverside County, California, the type locality. 



86. Penstemon breviflorus Lindl. Gaping Penstemon. Fig. 4723. 



Penstemon breviflorus Lindl. Bot. Reg. 23: pi. 1946. 1837. 

 Penstemon carinatus Kell. Proc. Calif. Acad. 1 : 63. 1855. 

 Penstemon canoso-barbatus Kell. op. cit. 2: 15. 1860. 



Shrub 5-20 dm. high, the numerous virgate stems at length rather lax, glabrous and 

 glaucous. Leaves 1-5 or 7 cm. long, 3-12 mm. wide, narrowly to widely lanceolate, subsessile, 

 serrulate to entire, glabrous; thyrsus pyramidal, 1-5.5 dm. long, 4-15 cm. wide, many-flowered; 

 calyx (like the pedicels) glandular-pubescent, 5-10 mm. high, the lobes broadly lanceolate to 

 ovate ; corolla white flushed with rose with prominent purplish guide lines, the buds yellowish, 

 15-18 mm. long, the arching galeate upper lip more than half the total length, its lobes less 

 than 2 mm. long, the strongly reflexed lower lip parted almost to base into 3 oblong lobes, all 

 glandular-pubescent externally and more or less strongly hirsute apically; staminode glabrous. 

 n = 8. 



Dry rocky slopes. Upper Sonoran and Transition Zones; in California through the Coast Ranges from 

 Alameda County to Los Angeles County, thence north into the southern Sierra Nevada, occasional to the Lake 

 Tahoe region. Type locality: California. May-July. 



Penstemon breviflorus subsp. glabrisepalus Keck, Madrono 3:207. 1936. Calyx glabrous, in other 

 respects like the typical species. North Coast Ranges from Mendocino County to Napa County and the sierra 

 Nevada from Shasta County to Tulare County, California, east to Nevada in the Lake Tahoe region, lype 

 locality: Mather, Tuolumne County, California. 



87. Penstemon Lemmonii A. Gray. Bush Beard-tongue. Fig. 4724. 



Penstemon Lemmonii A. Gray, Bot. Calif. 1: 557. 1876. 



Open shrub 5-15 dm. high, the herbage bright green, at least the stems glaucous, glabrous 

 up to the pedicels of the flowers. Leaves 1-6 cm. long, 5-25 mm. wide, ovate-lanceolate to 

 elliptic, serrulate to subentire; thyrsus often narrow and less than 2 dm. long, but sometimes 

 much more exter^sive with elongated divaricate lower branches again compound, viscid-pubescent ; 

 calyx 4-7 mm. high, the lobes lanceolate ; corolla yellow with brownish galea and purple guide 

 lines, 10-14 mm. long, the large limb widely gaping ; staminode densely yellow-bearded, exserted. 

 n = 8. 



Brushy or wooded slopes, Transition Zones; California from Siskiyou County southward to Humboldt, 

 Solano, and Eldorado Counties, extending slightly into Nevada. Type locality: Long Valley, Mendocino County, 

 California. June-Aug. 



88. Penstemon antirrhinoides Benth. Chaparral Beard-tongue. Fig. 4725. 



Penstemon antirrhinoides Benth. in A. DC. Prod. 10: 594. 1846. 

 Lcpidostemon penstemonoides Lemaire, 111. Hortic. 9: pi. 315. 1862. 

 Penstemon Lobbii Hort. ex Lemaire, loc. cit. 



Shrub 1-2.5 m. high with spreading much-branched stems, more or less puberulent through- 



