Family: Plantaginaceae
Scientific Name: Penstemon utahensis
Common Name: Utah Penstemon
| Description | A Utah native Penstemon with hot red-pink flowers. |
| Pronunciation | (pen-STE-mon) |
| Plant Type | All Plants, Perennials Hardy |
| Hardiness Zone | 5 |
| Sunlight | full |
| Moisture | average to dry |
| Soil & Site | well drained, ph 6-8, native to semi-desert. Canyons, openings, shrub lands. |
| Flowers | borne on a spike, hot red-pink, bell-shaped flowers |
| Leaves | thick and rolled inward, stem leaves are nearly vertical |
| Dimensions | up to 24 inches depending on the growing conditions |
| Maintenance | dead head to promote rebloom |
| Propagation | seeds |
| Native Site | California and Utah USA, semi-desert canyons, openings, shrublands |
| Cultivar Origin | Collected by Alice Eastwood near Monticello, Utah (USA) in 1892 and she described and named it in 1893. |
| Notes & Reference | #237-Penstemons (Peter Nord) |
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