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  2. Plants
  3. Vascular Plants
  4. Dicots
  5. Mints, Plantains, Olives, and Allies
  6. Plantain Family
  7. Beardtongues
  8. Penstemon
  9. Gentianoides
  10. Top native

Top native Gentianoides

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

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6 native plants

Sun and shade

Light

Full sun 2 Part shade 1

Soil and water

Moisture

Dry 2

Water use

Low 1

Soil pH

Acid 1

Form

Plant type

Perennial 6 Wildflower 6
  • Scarlet Bugler Penstemon centranthifolius caterpillars 6 food 1 flowers 43
  • Superb Beardtongue Penstemon superbus caterpillars 4 food 3 flowers 27
  • Utah Beardtongue Penstemon utahensis caterpillars 4 food 2 flowers 51
  • Mistaken Penstemon Penstemon confusus caterpillars 4 food 2 flowers 44
  • Lone Pine Beardtongue Penstemon patens caterpillars 4 food 1 flowers 37
  • Big Bend Beardtongue Penstemon havardii caterpillars 1 food 2 flowers 12

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