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PENSTEMON
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Large genus of subshrubs or herbs having showy blue or purple or red or yellow or white flowers; mostly western North America
Synonyms:
genus Penstemon; Penstemon
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("Penstemon" is a kind of...):
asterid dicot genus (genus of more or less advanced dicotyledonous herbs and some trees and shrubs)
Meronyms (members of "Penstemon"):
Penstemon whippleanus; Whipple's penstemon (wine and lavender to purple and black flowers in several clusters on the upper half of leafy stems; Montana south through the Rocky Mountains to Arizona and New Mexico)
cascade penstemon; Penstemon serrulatus (whorls of deep blue to dark purple flowers at tips of erect leafy stems; moist places from British Columbia to Oregon)
Penstemon rydbergii; Rydberg's penstemon (plant with whorls of small dark blue-violet flowers; Washington to Wyoming and south to California and Colorado)
cliff penstemon; Penstemon rupicola; rock penstemon (one of the West's most beautiful wildflowers; large brilliant pink or rose flowers in many racemes above thick mats of stems and leaves; ledges and cliffs from Washington to California)
Parry's penstemon; Penstemon parryi (erect stems with pinkish-lavender flowers in long interrupted clusters; Arizona)
balloon flower; Penstemon palmeri; scented penstemon (fragrant puffed-up white to reddish-pink flowers in long narrow clusters on erect stems; Arizona to New Mexico and Utah)
mountain pride; Penstemon newberryi (mat-forming plant with deep pink flowers on short erect leafy stems; rocky places at high elevations from Oregon to California)
narrow-leaf penstemon; Penstemon linarioides (plant having small narrow leaves and blue-violet flowers in long open clusters; Utah and Colorado to New Mexico and Arizona)
lowbush penstemon; Penstemon fruticosus; shrubby penstemon (low bushy plant with large showy pale lavender or blue-violet flowers in narrow clusters at ends of stems)
Jones' penstemon; Penstemon dolius (low plant with light blue and violet flowers in short clusters near tips of stems; Nevada to Utah)
hot-rock penstemon; Penstemon deustus (stems in clumps with cream-colored flowers; found from Washington to Wyoming and southward to California and Utah)
Davidson's penstemon; Penstemon davidsonii (mat-forming plant with blue and lavender flowers clustered on short erect stems; British Columbia to northern California)
Penstemon cyananthus; Platte River penstemon (erect plant with blue-violet flowers in rings near tips of stems; Idaho to Utah and Wyoming)
red shrubby penstemon; redwood penstemon (low branching dark green shrub with bunches of brick-red flowers at ends of branches; coastal ranges and foothills of northern California)
Penstemon centranthifolius; scarlet bugler (plant with bright red tubular flowers in long narrow clusters near tips of erect stems; coastal ranges from central California southward)
golden-beard penstemon; Penstemon barbatus (plant of southwestern United States having long open clusters of scarlet flowers with yellow hairs on lower lip)
Holonyms ("Penstemon" is a member of...):
family Scrophulariaceae; figwort family; foxglove family; Scrophulariaceae (a family of dicotyledonous plants of the order Polemoniales; includes figwort and snapdragon and foxglove and toadflax and speedwell and mullein; in some classifications placed in the order Scrophulariales)
