View source for Penstemon californicus

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|accepted_name=Penstemon californicus
|accepted_authority=(Munz & I. M. Johnston) D. D. Keck
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Bull. Torrey Bot. Club
|place=64: 378. 1937
|year=1937
}}
|common_names=California beardtongue
|basionyms={{Treatment/ID/Basionym
|name=Penstemon linarioides var. californicus
|authority=Munz & I. M. Johnston
|rank=variety
|publication_title=Bull. S. Calif. Acad. Sci.
|publication_place=23: 31. 1924
}}
|synonyms=
|hierarchy=Plantaginaceae;Penstemon;Penstemon subg. Penstemon;Penstemon sect. Caespitosi;Penstemon californicus
|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. Caespitosi]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>species</small>[[Penstemon californicus]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 17
|mention_page=page 99
|treatment_page=page 101
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Stems </b>ascending to erect, (5–)8–30 cm, retrorsely hairy, hairs white, scalelike. <b>Leaves</b> ± leathery or not, densely retrorsely hairy, hairs appressed, white, scalelike; cauline 10–30 pairs, petiolate, 8–16 × 1.5–2.5 mm, blade oblanceolate, base tapered, apex mucronate. <b>Thyrses</b> interrupted or continuous, secund, (1–)2–9 cm, axis retrorsely hairy with appressed, white, scalelike hairs, verticillasters 2–13, cymes 1–4-flowered, 1 per node; proximal bracts oblanceolate, 2–10 × 0.5–1.5 mm; peduncles and pedicels spreading to ascending, retrorsely hairy with appressed, white, scalelike hairs, and sparsely glandular-pubescent. <b>Flowers</b>: calyx lobes ovate, 3.5–5.5 × 1.5–2 mm, scarious-margined, retrorsely hairy with appressed, white, scalelike hairs, and sparsely glandular-pubescent; corolla purple to violet, lined internally abaxially with reddish purple nectar guides, tubular-funnelform, 14–18 mm, sparsely white-lanate internally abaxially, tube 5–6 mm, throat gradually inflated, 4.5–6 mm diam., 2-ridged abaxially; stamens included, filaments glabrous or sparsely puberulent and sometimes with appressed, white, scalelike hairs proximally, pollen sacs opposite, navicular, 0.9–1.4 mm, sutures papillate; staminode 7–9 mm, reaching orifice or exserted, flattened distally, 0.3–0.4 mm diam., tip straight to recurved, distal 4–5 mm pilose, hairs yellow, to 0.7 mm; style 9–11 mm. <b>Capsules</b> 5–7 × 4–5 mm.</span><!--

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|phenology=Flowering May–Jul(–Aug).
|habitat=Sandy or gravelly soils, pine-juniper woodlands, pine forests.
|elevation=1200–2300 m.
|distribution=Calif.;Mexico (Baja California).
|discussion=<p>In California, <i>Penstemon californicus</i> is known from the San Jacinto Mountains in Orange and Riverside counties; it also occurs in the Sierra San Pedro Mártir in Baja California. The chromosome number of 2n = 16 reported by N. H. Holmgren (1993) is likely an error based on a count for <i>Scrophularia californica</i> reported in P. H. Raven et al. (1965) and later misattributed to <i>P. californicus</i> by D. V. Clark (1971) as n = 48 (the count listed in Raven et al.), and then corrected to 2n = 16.</p>
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name=Penstemon californicus
|authority=(Munz & I. M. Johnston) D. D. Keck
|rank=species
|parent rank=section
|synonyms=
|basionyms=Penstemon linarioides var. californicus
|family=Plantaginaceae
|phenology=Flowering May–Jul(–Aug).
|habitat=Sandy or gravelly soils, pine-juniper woodlands, pine forests.
|elevation=1200–2300 m.
|distribution=Calif.;Mexico (Baja California).
|reference=None
|publication title=Bull. Torrey Bot. Club
|publication year=1937
|special status=
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|genus=Penstemon
|subgenus=Penstemon subg. Penstemon
|section=Penstemon sect. Caespitosi
|species=Penstemon californicus
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