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Penstemon multiflorus
MANYFLOWER BEARDTONGUE
Florida native
A frequent plant of sandhills and flatwoods throughout much of Florida, also ranging into southern Georgia and Alabama.
This perennial grows to a meter tall or more. The stem is smooth, reddish with opposite branches and leaves which are also sessile. The white bell-shaped, nodding flowers are in terminal panicles. The corolla is 5-lobed and 2-lipped with the lower lip having 3 lobes. The calyx is also 5-lobed and hairy. There are 4 curved fertile stamens and one hairy, straight, infertle stamen that gives this plant its common name.
Penstemon multiflorus is a member of the Scrophulariaceae - Figwort family.
Other species of this genus in the Wild Florida Photo database:
View Penstemon laevigatus - EASTERN SMOOTH BEARDTONGUE
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Atlas of Florida Vascular Plants (Institute for Systemic Botany) profile for this species
USDA Plant Profile for this species
Date record last modified:
Jul 10, 2005