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|accepted_name=Penstemon gibbensii
|accepted_authority=Dorn
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Brittonia
|place=34: 334. 1982
|year=1982
}}
|common_names=Gibbens’s beardtongue
|special_status={{Treatment/ID/Special_status
|code=E
|label=Endemic
}}{{Treatment/ID/Special_status
|code=C
|label=Conservation concern
}}
|basionyms=
|synonyms=
|hierarchy=Plantaginaceae;Penstemon;Penstemon subg. Penstemon;Penstemon sect. Glabri;Penstemon gibbensii
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Plantaginaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Penstemon]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>subgenus</small>[[Penstemon subg. Penstemon]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>section</small>[[Penstemon sect. Glabri]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>species</small>[[Penstemon gibbensii]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 17
|mention_page=page 156, 158
|treatment_page=page 167
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Stems </b>ascending to erect, 10–37 cm, pubescent to retrorsely hairy, sometimes glabrous proximally, glandular-pubescent distally, not glaucous. <b>Leaves</b> basal and cauline, or basal absent or reduced, not leathery, proximals glabrous or puberulent to scabrous, distals puberulent or scabrous to glandular-pubescent, not glaucous; basal and proximal cauline 15–90 × 2–7(–8) mm, blade oblanceolate to linear, base tapered, margins entire, apex obtuse to acute; cauline 6–10 pairs, short-petiolate or sessile, 9–68 × 1–5 mm, blade oblanceolate to linear, base tapered to truncate, apex obtuse to acute. <b>Thyrses</b> interrupted, secund, (2–)5–14 cm, axis glandular-pubescent, verticillasters (2–)5–8, cymes 1–3-flowered, 1 or 2 per node; proximal bracts lanceolate, proximals 8–43 × 1–3 mm; peduncles and pedicels glandular-pubescent. <b>Flowers</b>: calyx lobes ovate to lanceolate, 3.5–7(–8) × 1.8–2.5 mm, glandular-pubescent; corolla lavender to light blue or light violet, with faint reddish purple nectar guides, funnelform, (15–)16–18(–20) mm, glandular-pubescent externally, sparsely to moderately glandular-pubescent or glandular internally abaxially, tube 5.5–6.5 mm, throat gradually inflated, not constricted at orifice, 5–6 mm diam., rounded abaxially; stamens: longer pair reaching orifice, pollen sacs divergent, navicular, 1–1.4 mm, dehiscing incompletely, proximal 1/5 indehiscent, connective not splitting, sides moderately hirsute, hairs white, to 0.7 mm, sutures denticulate, teeth to 0.1 mm; staminode 8–10 mm, included, 0.6–0.7 mm diam., tip recurved, distal 1–3 mm sparsely pilose or lanate, hairs yellow or whitish, to 1 mm; style 11–16 mm. <b>Capsules</b> 5–8 × 3.5–5 mm.</span><!--

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|phenology=Flowering Jun–Sep.
|habitat=Barren hills, pinyon-juniper woodlands, sagebrush and greasewood-saltbush shrublands.
|elevation=1700–2300 m.
|distribution=Colo.;Utah;Wyo.
|discussion=<p><i>Penstemon gibbensii</i> is known from fewer than ten populations in Moffat and Rio Blanco counties, Colorado, Daggett County, Utah, and Carbon and Sweetwater counties, Wyoming (S. L. O’Kane 1988; E. C. Neese and N. D. Atwood 2003). Plants occur on shales or sandstones of the Browns Park Formation and Green River Formation (B. L. Heidel 2009).</p>
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|references={{Treatment/Reference
|id=heidel2009a
|text=Heidel, B. L. 2009. Survey and Monitoring of Penstemon gibbensii (Gibbens’ Beardtongue) in South-central Wyoming. Laramie.
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-->{{#Taxon:
name=Penstemon gibbensii
|author=
|authority=Dorn
|rank=species
|parent rank=section
|synonyms=
|basionyms=
|family=Plantaginaceae
|phenology=Flowering Jun–Sep.
|habitat=Barren hills, pinyon-juniper woodlands, sagebrush and greasewood-saltbush shrublands.
|elevation=1700–2300 m.
|distribution=Colo.;Utah;Wyo.
|reference=heidel2009a
|publication title=Brittonia
|publication year=1982
|special status=Endemic;Conservation concern
|source xml=https://jpend@bitbucket.org/aafc-mbb/fna-data-curation.git/src/f6b125a955440c0872999024f038d74684f65921/coarse_grained_fna_xml/V17/V17_413.xml
|genus=Penstemon
|subgenus=Penstemon subg. Penstemon
|section=Penstemon sect. Glabri
|species=Penstemon gibbensii
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