Penstemons/beardtongues
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The largest genus of flowering plants that are endemic to North America with around 250 species. The Penstemon beardtongues can be a short-lived perennial that can suffer in the cold of winter which is why it is a good idea to take cuttings in the summer to make up for any winter losses. Will flower from May to October and will grow in part shade to full sun. Any varieties that have purple or reddish leaves will have the best looking foliage if grown in the direct sunlight.
Taken on an overcast day at the Queen's Victoria Gardens, Melbourne.
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Miss Penelope, our female resident Anna's Hummingbird, contemplating which bloom of the Beard Tongue has the best nectar!
These native Penstemon Beardtongue plants produce dozens of tubular flowers arranged on a tall stalk and are related to snapdragons. The flowers are perfectly shaped to accommodate hummingbirds, but bees and butterflies also love them. Each flower has five petals and most common colors are lavender, salmon, pink, red and white.
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Bumble Bee collecting pollen in the the pollen baskets on the Bee's hind legs! The Bumble Bee is collecting pollen from our Beard Tongue (Pennstemon) flowering plant.
Beardtongue, Penstemon sp, taken at the David Austin rose gardens and nursery, Albrighton, Shropshire, England.
Please view large. If you look closely at the bottom flower you can see how it gets the common name beardtongue.
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Beardtongue 'Strawberries and Cream' (Penstemon)
For my 100 Flowers Project - 2023
From a garden along our street.
I've really been having a lot of fun with the hummers this year. They've been plentiful and willing subjects and have provided me hours of entertainment and joy. While they spend more time at the feeders than the flowers, every once in a while they oblige and dip into the beards tongue we have on the deck.
I've noticed that I need to change my Auto Capture settings when dealing with moving blossoms in a breeze. I have to incorporate both motion and detection, otherwise the flowers set off the capture mode by themselves.
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We've had a goodly amount of hummingbirds this year - broadtails, black-chinned. and most recently the rufous have arrived. Now that our exterior remodeling is done, I have some flowers out to supplement the feeders. This female broadtail was one of the first to sample the beardtongue. Yay summer!
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Golder’s Hill Park
Situated in North End Way, Golders Hill, London NW3 7HE. The park is chiefly grassy parkland but has a very well looked after flower garden. It has a duck pond with a humped-back bridge, a small zoo that is free to enter. A water garden, a larger pond, a Butterfly House (restricted opening times) plus playground, tennis courts and croquet lawns. There is also a bronze statue named ‘The Golder’s Hill Girl’ sculptured by Patricia Finch in 1991.
The Park attaches itself to Hampstead Heath. In the day there was a large House but this was damaged in WWII never to be rebuilt. A restaurant has been built near the site of that house.
The Park is closed at night and dogs must be kept on leads at all times.
A group of birds is called a flock. A flock of hummingbirds is called a "Charm." This Charm is a composite of 7 photographs. The flower is Foxglove beardtongue (Penstemon digitalis)
At last, the wildflowers in the butterfly garden are beginning to bloom. It shouldn't be long before we see butterflies and hummingbirds.
Focus stack 22 images. Shot with LED lighting (Rotolight Neo with diffuser gel, 100% power, 5600 K), Camera left, above lens, angled at 60 degrees).
a new addition to my project :-)
Coconino County desert beardtongue is an incredible bloomer with numerous spikes of intensely deep pink tubular flowers in late spring. A willing re-seeder, it spreads gently, helping to fill in difficult-to-plant areas. Drought resistant/drought tolerant plant (xeric).
Penstemon digitalis (foxglove beard-tongue, foxglove beardtongue, talus slope penstemon, or white beardtongue) is a plant in the plantain family, Plantaginaceae. The flowers are white and are borne in summer. It is native to eastern Canada and eastern and southeastern United States.
Whipple's penstemons, Penstemon whippleanus, were growing beside a creek at 10,000 feet in the Ruby Mountains. They are usually found in moist areas high in the mountains of CO, AZ, NM, AZ, WY, ID, MT. They are purple in the Ruby, San Juan and Abajo Mountains, but on Grand Mesa in Colorado they are frequently white or cream with light purple highlights.
Other common names are Whipple's beardtongue or dusky beardtongue. This plant grows 1 - 2 feet tall, with flowers clustered at the top--for a view of a flower stalk:
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All 243 species of Penstemon are native and endemic to North America.
in the Eastern North America section. UC Botanical Garden. Berkeley.
I finally got the correct ID from the horticulturist in charge of this plant at the university garden! Thanks, Jared!
Read more here:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Physostegia_virginiana
So, forget "beardtongue" and "penstemon" (look alikes).
Flowers of Parry's Beardtongue (Penstemon parryi) growing next to a Palo Verde tree in the Rio Vista Nature Reserve in Tucson, Arizona. These wildflowers, native to the Sonoran Desert, attract hummingbirds and native bees.
A female broad-tailed hummingbird enjoys the sweet nectar of a beardtongue flower.
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Beginning a new image set today: recent macro photography. Penstemon nitidus is a dryland specialist that does well in our area. It's small flowers are arranged on a raceme-like spike, and are a lovely bright blue with tinges of lavender.
I have no idea what this insect is. It was really, really tiny - the tubular corolla of this species is only 3/4" long. Wind is the biggest problem in shooting macro on the prairie, but on this day the air was remarkably still.
Photographed in Grasslands National Park, Saskatchewan (Canada). Don't use this image on websites, blogs, or other media without explicit permission ©2023 James R. Page - all rights reserved.
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These red wildflowers are known as Indian paintbrush or Prairie-fire. The blue one is Blue Beardtongue or Alberta penstemon.
I noticed them while hiking along Rowe Creek in Waterton Lakes NP.
5/20/2023 Columbia, SC
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Wildflowers in Mid-May on a Cool Morning, Rocky Mountain Foothills, Colorado. My best guess is these flowers are called Beardtongues, as each bloom has "two upper lips and three lower lips." I welcome any input on this type of flower.
'Strawberries and Cream' - Beardtongue (Penstemon)
For my 100 Flowers Project - 2025
Looking bit like Foxgloves but they aren't.
Growing in a garden along our street.
Penstemon bracteatus
Other common names include: Pride of the Mountain, Red Canyon Beardtongue, and Platy Penstemon.
This rare perennial species is found nowhere else in the world except for the Bryce Canyon and Red Canyon areas of Utah. This wildflower is in bloom between May-July. The perfect specimens I encountered were 2-5" in height.
So small, and so very perfect.
Please Don't Eat the Daisies Penstemon.
A Gold Mantled Ground squirrel snacks on some tasty Penstemon flowers. Olmsted Point, Yosemite National Park
Explore August 6th, 2022
Die Bartfaden (Penstemon) sind eine Pflanzengattung innerhalb der Familie der Wegerichgewächse (Plantaginaceae). Mit über 250 Arten ist es eine sehr artenreiche Gattung, die von Nord- bis Zentralamerika weitverbreitet ist.
Penstemon, the beardtongues, is a large genus of roughly 250 species of flowering plants native mostly to the Nearctic, but with a few species also found in the North American portion of the Neotropics. It is the largest genus of flowering plants endemic to North America. while typically a long straight filament extending to the mouth of the corolla, some are longer and extremely hairy, giving the general appearance of an open mouth with a fuzzy tongue protruding and inspiring the common name beardtongue.
The large penstemon patch at Lincoln Park was abuzz with bees today. They were tricky to photograph, as they only spent a moment on each blossom.
Spotted this beautiful plant called Penstemon Cherry Sparks or Beardtongue at the Zoo the other day. The plant collection at the San Diego Zoo is fantastic, tbh. It is primary reason I love to go there with my camera. Industar61 here wide open with soft bokeh bubbles while still plenty sharp on the flower details.
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A gaudy orange flower of the Pineapple Cactus to this Penstemon is quit e a leap, so settle down for some more "sedate" wildflowers.
Penstemon, the beardtongues, is a large genus of roughly 250 species of flowering plants native mostly to the Nearctic, but with a few species also found in the North American portion of the Neotropics. It is the largest genus of flowering plants endemic to North America. Penstemon spectabilis is a species of penstemon known by the common name showy penstemon or showy beardtongue. It is native to southern California and Baja California, where it grows in the chaparral, scrub, and woodlands of the coastal mountain ranges.
What makes this particular Penstemon unique is that it is one of a handful of the species that does well in hot, arid climates, and that's what Ruth Bancroft had in mind when she established her "dry garden."
I'll do something unusual this week. After this, my favorite of the two species (of Penstemon) at the Garden, perhaps even later this afternoon, I'll post the visitor's first glimpse of the Garden, a showy Penstemon that has been an iffy bloomer until this year, when it exploded with flowers and colors. And the first view, a huge Agave, California Poppies, Desert Daisies, and this very large and sprawling Pestemon Spectabulis.
Penstemon, the beardtongues, is the largest genus of flowering plants endemic to North America. Penstemon have partly tube-shaped, and two-lipped flowers. The most distinctive feature of the genus is the prominent staminode, an infertile stamen, that is typically a long straight filament extending to the mouth of the corolla, some are longer and extremely hairy, giving the general appearance of an open mouth with a fuzzy tongue protruding and inspiring the common name of "beardtongue". The native range of the pictured Gorman's penstemon is Alaska to Northern British Columbia. It grows on dry sandy or gravelly sites. I have seen this flower in a range of colours from light pink to blue and purple.