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Saccanthera

Penstemon purpusii. Photo: (c) 2001 California Academy of Sciences, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC-SA)

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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: Saccanthera
        Species: Penstemon purpusii (Snow mountain beardtongue)
        Species: Penstemon azureus (Azure penstemon)
        Species: Penstemon laetus (Mountain blue penstemon) (1)

Subtaxa

Species: Penstemon purpusii (Snow mountain beardtongue)

Species: Penstemon azureus (Azure penstemon)

Species: Penstemon laetus (Mountain blue penstemon)

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Discussion

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