Springtime Penstemon

March 25, 2024 00:04:11
Springtime Penstemon
Growing Native with Petey Mesquitey
Springtime Penstemon

Mar 25 2024 | 00:04:11

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Show Notes

Penstemons are in the Figwort Family, Scrophulariaceae. There are about 250 species and the majority of them, 99.9999%…okay I dunno, but there is only one other species somewhere in Eastern Asia… are found in North America and most of those are in the western United States. Lucky us and yay! Oh, and here is a fun factoid: It was botanist David Mitchell in colonial Virginia who suggested the name Penstemon to a plant he was working with, but he didn’t explain the name. Other botanists thought Mitchell was referring to the five stamen of the flowers using the Greek pente…

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