| Description | Foxglove Penstemon (Penstemon digitalis) A native wildflower, clump-forming medium to tall plant with foxglove-like white flowers. |
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| Plant Type | Wild Flowers, Wild Flowers |
| Sunlight | full, mostly sunny |
| Moisture | average |
| Soil & Site | average |
| Flowers | white, two-lipped, tubular flowers (to 1.25" long) borne in panicles atop erect, rigid stems., may have some light purple |
| Fruit | maroon, egg-shaped seed capsules, dry to brown splits open, irregularly angular seeds |
| Leaves | has a basal rosette of leaves, stem leaves lance-shaped, opposite, almost hooked together, leaves smooth to hooked |
| Roots | short rhizomes |
| Dimensions | 1-3 feet tall |
| Maintenance | may become an aggressive reseedere |
| Propagation | seeds, division |
| Misc Facts | Genus name comes from the Greek words penta meaning five and stemon meaning stamen in reference to each flower having five stamens (four are fertile and one is sterile). Genus name from the Latin digitus meaning finger for flowers that look like the finger of a glove. |
| Notes & Reference | #56-Tall Grass Prairie Wildflowers (Doug Ladd), #100-Wildflowers of Wisconsin and the Upper Midwest (Merel Black and Emmet Judziewicz), #144-Missouri Botanical Gardens web site (www.missouribotanicalgarden.org), |
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