FIGWORT FAMILY. Scrophulariaceae. 



This is perhaps the most beautiful of 

 Blue Pentstemon, &u the p en tstemons, with several smooth, 

 Beard-tongue ' 



Pentstemon stoutish, pale green, leafy stems, from one 



cyandnthus to two feet tall and smooth, pale bluish- 



Blue green leaves, with more or less "bloom," 



toothless and thickish, the upper ones 

 somewhat clasping. The flowers are not 

 hairy or sticky, and are over an inch long, forming a hand- 

 some cluster about eight inches long. The sepals are 

 narrow and pointed, the corolla is tinted with various 

 beautiful shades of blue and purple, often with a white 

 throat and blue lobes, or with a pink throat and deep blue 

 lobes, the sterile filament has a thickened, more or less 

 hairy, yellow tip, and the pale yellow anthers are more or 

 less hairy. This plant is beautiful in every way, for the 

 foliage is fine in form and color and the flowers are bril- 

 liantly variegated, yet harmonious and graceful. This 

 grows on hillsides and in mountain valleys, at rather high 

 altitudes, and used to be common and conspicuous on the 

 "benches" around the Salt Lake Valley, but it is gradually 

 being exterminated by sheep. It thrives and improves 

 when transplanted into gardens. P. acuminatus is similar, 

 but the cluster is looser and the flowers often pink and pur- 

 ple. It forms fine patches of color at the Grand Canyon. 

 A handsome shrub, with much the 



Honeysuckle general appearance of a Honeysuckle 

 Pentstemon 



Pentstemon woody below, with long slender branche 



cordifolius and pretty heart-shaped leaves. Th 



Red flowers are often in pairs and are each an 



Summer inch and a half long, with bright scarle 



California . b ', 



corollas, conspicuously two-lipped, the 



stamens protruding, and form large clusters toward 

 the ends of the branches. This grows in light shade in 

 the woods and trails its long branches and garlands o 

 bright flowers over the neighboring shrubs and trees. 



A beautiful little shrub, making splen 

 Pride-of-the- did patcnes o f v i v j d co i or on high bare 

 mountain . . . . 



Pentstemon rocks in the mountains, where it is ver 



Newberryi conspicuous, hanging over the edges o 



Pink, lilac inaccessible ledges. The stems are woody 



Summer below and very branching, about a foo 



high, and the leaves are usually toothed 

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