Penstemon labrosus

San gabriel beardtongue

Family: Plantaginaceae · Type: perennial · Native

San gabriel beardtongue is a California native perennial found in Transverse Ranges and Peninsular Ranges in pinyon/juniper woodland and pine and mixed-hardwood forests at elevations of 1,200 to 3,100 meters. Flowering from July to August, this plant produces orange-red to yellow flowers with a distinctive cylindric corolla 30 to 40 millimeters long, featuring an upper lip that forms a hood and a lower lip strongly curved backward. Growing with erect stems 30 to 70 centimeters tall, it has a glabrous (smooth and hairless) appearance. Its cauline leaves are linear, 30 to 85 millimeters long, generally rolled inward and entire. The flower's calyx has ovate lobes 3.5 to 5.5 millimeters long, with glabrous anther-sacs that open in the distal two-thirds.

Habitat: Pinyon/juniper woodland, pine and mixed-hardwood forests

Bloom period: Jul-Aug

Elevation: 1200-3100 m

Bioregions: TR, PR

California counties: Riverside, San Bernardino, Los Angeles, Ventura, San Diego, Inyo, Kern, Mono, Tulare

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