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Conservation Status

NatureServe: G3 Vulnerable

Taxonomy

Notes:

Name Status: Accepted Name. Latest taxonomic scrutiny: 15-Mar-2000

Physical Description

Family Scrophulariaceae:

Herbs, sometimes shrubs, rarely trees; mostly autotrophic, less often hemiparasitic or parasitic. Stipules absent. Leaves alternate, opposite, whorled, or basally opposite and apically alternate, simple or sometimes pinnately dissected. Inflorescences racemes, spikes, or thyrsoid panicles, determinate or indeterminate, or flowers solitary. Flowers perfect, usually zygomorphic, rarely actinomorphic. Calyx often persistent, (2-) 4- or 5-lobed or -parted, variously connate. Corolla sympetalous; limb (3 or) 4- or 5-lobed, often 2-lipped. Stamens mostly 4, didynamous, sometimes 1 or 2 staminodes present, less often 2 or 5 stamens; anther locules 1 or 2, equal or subequal, free or confluent. Nectary often present at base of ovary, ringlike, cupular, or reduced to a gland. Ovary superior, 2-loculed, rarely apically 1-loculed; ovules numerous, rarely 2 per locule, on axile placentas, anatropous or hemitropous. Style simple; stigma capitate, 2-lobed, or 2-lamellate. Fruit a capsule, septicidal, loculicidal, or septifragal, sometimes opening by pores or irregularly dehiscent, rarely a berry. Seeds minute or rarely conspicuous, sometimes winged; testa often reticulate; hilum lateral or ventral; endosperm fleshy or absent; embryo straight or curved.

About 220 genera and 4500 species: cosmopolitan; 61 genera (seven endemic) and 681 species (415 endemic) throughout China but with a greater concentration in SW China.^[1]

Habit: Subshrub, Shrub, Forb/herb

Distribution

Range and Population

North America

Reproduction

Duration: Perennial

Similar Species

Members of the genus Penstemon:

There are approximately 1,520 species, subspecies, varieties, forms, and cultivars in this genus. Here are just 100 of them: P. alpinus brandegei · P. apateticus durangensis · P. attenuatus hyacinthinus · P. attenuatus typicus · P. azureus parvulus · P. azureus typicus · P. bicolor typicus · P. breviflorus typicus · P. caespitosus typicus · P. campanulatus subglandulosus · P. canescens brittonorum · P. canescens typicus · P. cinereus foliatus · P. cinereus typicus · P. clevelandii angelicus · P. clevelandii typicus · P. coloradoensis sileri · P. confusus typicus · P. crandalii taosensis · P. crandallii typicus · P. cynanthus subglaber · P. deustus typicus · P. floridus typicus · P. fruticiformis typicus · P. fruticosus cardwellii · P. gairdneri typicus · P. guadalupensis ernesti · P. guadalupensis typicus · P. heterodoxus typicus · P. heterophyllus spinulosus · P. heterophyllus typicus · P. humilis typicus · P. laetus filiformis · P. laetus typicus · P. laricifolius typicus · P. miniatus apateticus · P. miniatus townsendianus · P. moffatii typicus · P. nitidus typicus · P. procerus formosus · P. procerus pulvereus · P. procerus tolmiei · P. procerus typicus · P. pseudospectabilis bicolor · P. pseudospectabilis clutei · P. rattani kleei · P. rattanii typicus · P. rothrockii typicus · P. rydbergii typicus · P. speciosus typicus · P. spectabilis typicus · P. strictus strictoformis · P. ternatus typicus · P. thompsoniae typicus · P. tolmiei modestus · P. tolmiei typicus · P. triflorus typicus · P. triphyllus typicus · P. watsonii typicus · P. whitedii typicus · P. 'Abberley' · P. 'Abbeydore' · P. 'Abbotsmerry' · P. 'Agnes Laing' · P. 'Alice Hindley' · P. 'Alice Howarth' · P. 'Amy Gray' · P. 'Andenken an Friedrich Hahn' · P. 'Apple Blossom' (Beard Tongue) · P. 'Ashton' · P. 'Astley' · P. 'Audrey Cooper' · P. 'Axe Valley Jessica' · P. 'Axe Valley Mabel Alice' · P. 'Axe Valley Penny Mitchell' · P. 'Axe Valley Pixie' · P. 'Axe Valley Suzie' · P. 'Baby Lips' · P. 'Barbara Barker' · P. 'Barbelles' · P. 'Beckford' · P. 'Beech Park' · P. 'Beverley' · P. 'Bisham Seedling' · P. 'Blackbird' (Beard Tongue) · P. 'Blue King' · P. 'Blue Spring' · P. 'Bodnant' · P. 'Bovey Belle' · P. 'Breakleys Blue' · P. 'Bredon' · P. 'Breitenbush Blue' · P. 'Bridget's White' · P. 'Burford Purple' · P. 'Burford Seedling' · P. 'Burford White' · P. 'Burgundy' · P. 'Candy Pink' · P. 'Carolyn Orr' (Beard Tongue) · P. 'Castle Forbes'

Bibliography

• Tsoong Puchiu & Yang Hanbi, eds. 1979. Scrophulariaceae (1). Fl. Reipubl. Popularis Sin. 67(2): 1-431. Tsoong Puchiu, ed. 1963. Scrophulariaceae (2). Fl. Reipulb. Popularis Sin. 68: 1-449.

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Notes

Contributors:

• Bisby, F.A., Y.R. Roskov, M.A. Ruggiero, T.M. Orrell, L.E. Paglinawan, P.W. Brewer, N. Bailly, J. van Hertum, eds (2007). Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of Life: 2007 Annual Checklist. Species 2000: Reading, U.K.
• Global Biodiversity Information Facility. Accessed November 20, 2007. http://www.gbif.org Mediated distribution data from 4 providers.

Data Sources:

Accessed through GBIF Data Portal November 20, 2007:

• USDA PLANTS, USDA PLANTS Database
• Utah State University, USU-UTC Specimen Database
• Utah Valley State College
• , Utah Valley State College Herbarium

Identifiers:

• Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS) Taxonomic Serial Number (TSN): 34010
• Global Biodiversity Information Facility Taxonkey: 13748608
• Globally Unique Identifier: urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:187836-2
• Natural Heritage Network Species Identifier: PDSCR1L6F0
• U.S.D.A. Plant Symbol: PEUI
• Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 54661

Footnotes:

1. Deyuan Hong, Hanbi Yang, Cun-li Jin, Manfred A. Fischer, Noel H. Holmgren & Robert R. Mill "Scrophulariaceae". in Flora of China Vol. 18 Page 1. Published by Science Press (Beijing) and Missouri Botanical Garden Press. Online at EFloras.org.