Eastern Mojave Vegetation Coll. No. 3156, Penstemon glaber var. alpinus.  
 

 

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Photographed 20 January 2024.

Plants of the Douglas Mountain Study Area
Jefferson County Open Space, Colorado, USA
Plantaginaceae

Penstemon glaber Pursh var. alpinus (Torr.) A. Gray.  Sawsepal Penstemon.

Guy Gulch, Jefferson County, Colorado. North of Guy Gulch, accessed by a ranch road off of Pyrenees Lane, 71 m. east northeast of the line shack, 1.05 km. west southwest of Mt. Tom, 13.7 km. (geodesic) northwest of the GNIS location of Golden. 39.81309°N, 105.36281°W. WGS 1984 Elev. 2623 m. On the edge of an old road through forest of aspen, spruce and ponderosa pine, with Oxytropis lambertii and Packera fendleri.

Collected by permit: Jefferson County Open Space, 2023, issued: Apr 10, 2023, to: Tom Schweich.

Tom Schweich, with John Vickery 3156. 26-Jul-2023

Coll. No. 3156, 26 July 2023, characters observed: Perennial herb, to 30 cm., not mat-forming; Leaves, opposite, sessile, lanceolate to oblanceolate, 90 mm. × 14 mm. wide, glabrous, entire (not undulate or crisped); Inflorescence, axis, glabrous; Flowers, 30 mm., blue; Stamens, included; Staminode, slightly notched at tip; Anthers, 3.7 mm., sacs, short hairy opposite dehiscence.

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