Penstemon clevelandii

Cleveland's beardtongue

Family: Plantaginaceae · Type: perennial · Native

Cleveland's beardtongue is a California native perennial herb found in rocky or chaparral habitats at elevations of 500 to 1,500 meters. Flowering from April to June, this plant produces pink to magenta or red-purple flowers with a gradually expanding throat that is 4.5 to 8 millimeters wide when pressed. Growing 30 to 70 centimeters tall with a much-branched habit, the plant has a distinctively glabrous (smooth, hairless) herbage. Its thick leaves are approximately 20 to 60 millimeters long and somewhat ovate in shape. The flower's calyx is 3.5 to 6.5 millimeters long with ovate to nearly round lobes, and the corolla is glandular both outside and inside.

California counties: Imperial, San Diego, San Bernardino, Riverside

Data from The California Species Project — 14,000+ California species with verified data from CNPS, CDFW, USFWS, Jepson eFlora, Cal-IPC, and more.