Penstemon roezlii

Regel's mountain penstemon

Family: Plantaginaceae · Type: shrub · Native

Regel's mountain penstemon is a California native shrub found in the Klamath Ranges, Cascade Range, Sierra Nevada, and Modoc Plateau in dry sagebrush, juniper scrub, and conifer forest at elevations of 300 to 3,500 meters. Flowering from May to July, this plant produces purple-blue flowers 14 to 22 millimeters long with glandular exteriors. Growing as a subshrub 15 to 55 centimeters tall with woody branches, it develops a distinctively structured growth habit. Its leaves are linear to lance-shaped, generally 15 to 70 millimeters long and often folded lengthwise, covering the stems with a hairy herbage. The plant's flower structure includes narrow calyx lobes and distinctive long-haired anther sacs that open at their proximal end.

Habitat: +- Dry sagebrush or juniper scrub, conifer forest

Bloom period: May-Jul

Elevation: 300-3500 m

Bioregions: KR, CaR, SNH, MP

California counties: El Dorado, Modoc, Amador, Tulare, Alpine, Lassen, Siskiyou, Plumas, Inyo, Del Norte, Calaveras, Tuolumne, Sierra, Placer, Trinity, Shasta, Madera, Nevada, Merced, Mono, Mariposa

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