Penstemon parvulus

Short stalk penstemon

Family: Plantaginaceae · Type: perennial · Native

Short stalk penstemon is a California native perennial found in the southern Sierra Nevada and Klamath Ranges in rocky, open foothill and montane forests at elevations of 400 to 3,100 meters. Flowering from June to August, this plant produces blue to violet flowers 14 to 20 millimeters long with a glabrous corolla. Growing with loosely matted stems 15 to 30 centimeters tall, it forms a woody-branched base and has a glaucous, glabrous appearance. Its leaves are cauline, 10 to 45 millimeters long, lanceolate to ovate, and weakly serrate, clasping the stem. The flower's calyx is 3 to 5 millimeters long with lanceolate to widely obovate lobes.

Habitat: Rocky, open foothill and montane forests

Bloom period: Jun-Aug

Elevation: 400-3100 m

Bioregions: KR, s SNH

California counties: Fresno, Tulare, Nevada, Siskiyou, Del Norte, Trinity, Humboldt, Shasta, Alpine, Mendocino, Placer, Inyo

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