FOXGLOVE PENTSTEMON 
Pentstemon digitalis (Sweet) Nuttall 
Foxglove pentstemon thrives in dry meadows and thickets, and 
in midsummer its tall spikes of large white flowers, which are some- 
times tinged with lavender, are very showy. Under cultivation the 
size of the plant and the abundance of flowets may be improved. 
This is one of the few eastern pentstemons, most of the num- 
erous members of the genus being natives of the western moun- 
tains. They belong to the Figwort Family, and ate related to the 
garden foxglove. They are often called beardtongues. 
Foxglove pentstemon ranges from Georgia northward to Maine, 
and westwatd to Arkansas and Illinois. 
The specimen sketched grew near Washington, District of Co- 
lumbzia. 
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