Pentstemon gormani Greene
 
FamilyScrophulariaceae — APG family: Orobanchaceae
DescriptionStems several, from many-headed, woody rootstock, the upper part villous- glandular; basal leaves spatulate-oblong, entire, petiolated, glabrous; stem leaves linear-oblong, sessile; corolla about 2 cm long, violet to purplish, with rounded lobes, hirsute on inside; capsule elliptic, mucronate, about as long as calyx.
EcologyDry mountain slopes, to at least 1,000 meters.
Taxonomy
notes
The closely related P. eriantherus Pursh, with puberulent basal leaves, occurs south of the Pleistocene glaciation; broken line on circumpolar map indicates range of P. eriantherus.
Hultén's Flora About

This is a digital representation of Eric Hultén’s ‘Flora of Alaska and Neighboring Territories: A Manual of the Vascular Plants’, which was published by Stanford University Press in 1968. The book was digitized by C. Webb (at UAMN) as part of the Flora of Alaska project, with funding by the US NSF (Grant 1759964 to Ickert-Bond & Webb), and with permission of Stanford University Press. Data and images © 1968 Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Jr. Univ. Usage licence: Creative Commons BY-NC-SA 4.0. NB: You may find OCR errors; please refer to the hard-copy if in doubt.