Species

Penstemon rattanii (Rattan’s beardtongue)

Penstemon rattanii. Photo: (c) David Greenberger, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC-ND)

iNaturalist • Wikipedia

Penstemon /ˈpɛnstɪmən/, the beardtongues, is a large genus of roughly 250 species North American and East Asian flowering plants. Formerly placed in the Scrophulariaceae family by the Cronquist system, new genetic research has placed it in the vastly expanded Plantaginaceae family.

Humboldt Life
- Kingdom: Plantae (Plants)
  - Phylum: Tracheophyta (Vascular plants)
    - Subphylum: Angiospermae (Flowering plants)
      - Class: Magnoliopsida (Dicots)
        Order: Lamiales (Mints, plantains, olives, and allies)
        Family: Plantaginaceae (Plantain family)
        Tribe: Cheloneae (Penstemon and allies)
        Genus: Penstemon (Beardtongues)
        Subgenus: Penstemon
        Section: Penstemon
        Species: Penstemon rattanii (Rattan’s beardtongue)
        Variety: Penstemon rattanii rattanii (Rattan’s penstemon)

Subtaxa

Variety: Penstemon rattanii rattanii (Rattan’s penstemon)

Sightings

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Discussion

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