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  1. Life
  2. Plants
  3. Vascular Plants
  4. Dicots
  5. Mints, Plantains, Olives, and Allies
  6. Plantain Family
  7. Beardtongues
  8. Penstemon
  9. Beard-tongue

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Beard-tongue

Elmigera

Includes
4 native
Where
In the US
Source
iNaturalist

Children

  • Beardlip Penstemon native
  • Firecracker Penstemon native
  • San Gabriel Beardtongue native
  • Cardinal Beardtongue native

Range

United States

Greener is more native, amber more introduced; paler is less certain. How this was decided

Top native beard-tongue All

Native to the US, ranked by caterpillars, then bees and other hosts, food, flowers and shelter.

  • Beardlip Penstemon Penstemon barbatus caterpillars 9 food 3 flowers 53
  • Firecracker Penstemon Penstemon eatonii caterpillars 6 food 5 flowers 85
  • San Gabriel Beardtongue Penstemon labrosus caterpillars 5 flowers 47
  • Cardinal Beardtongue Penstemon cardinalis caterpillars 3 food 2 flowers 24

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