Penstemon procerus

Littleflower penstemon

Family: Plantaginaceae · Type: perennial · Native

Littleflower penstemon is a California native perennial found in alpine and subalpine habitats at high elevations in mountain regions. Flowering from June to August, this plant produces blue-purple flowers with white to yellow-hairy flower floors, typically 6 to 10 millimeters long. Growing with a matted, compact form reaching 5 to 40 centimeters tall, it develops glabrous stems with occasional hairy proximal stems. Its leaves are distinctive, with numerous basal leaves that are oblanceolate to obovate, while upper stems feature narrower lanceolate leaves. The plant's delicate blue-purple blossoms and low-growing, spread-out structure make it a charming alpine wildflower.

California counties: Siskiyou, Trinity, Shasta, Inyo, Sierra, Glenn, Tuolumne, Modoc, Humboldt, Butte, Mono, Nevada, Placer, El Dorado, Fresno, Mariposa, Plumas, Amador

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