| Description | Scarlet Scarlet Beardtongue (Penstemon barbatus Coccineus) is a tall Penstemon good for well drained full sun sites. |
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| Pronunciation | (pen-STE-mon)(bar-BAY-tus) |
| Plant Type | Perennials Hardy, Wild Flowers, Site author's observations |
| Hardiness Zone | 3-8 |
| Sunlight | full |
| Moisture | average |
| Soil & Site | average, well drained, gravely, avoid poorly drained |
| Flowers | orange red to scarlet, tubular, borne on a raceme, florets borne on one side of the raceme which is called secund |
| Leaves | green, simple, glaucous covered with a epicuticular wax |
| Stems | glaucous covered with a epicuticular wax |
| Dimensions | 2-3 feet tall |
| Maintenance | may need to be staked |
| Native Site | Natural range of species plant, from Utah, Nevada, Arizona, Texas, Colorado, Texas in elevation of 4,000-10,000 ft. |
| Misc Facts | Penstemon comes from two Greek words, "pente" meaning five and "stemon" meaning stamen. (syn. Penstemon frutescens) |
| Author's Notes | Planted Coccineus in my garden fall of 2012. In summer of 2013 it flowered with tall racemes loaded with orange red flowers. It needed to be staked. In 2014 the three plants had clumped together and when in bloom was a spectacular show of orange. It again needed to be staked. |
| Notes & Reference | #04-Herbaceous Perennial Plants (Allan Armitage), #119-Growing Penstemons (Dale Lindgren, Ellen Wilde), #144-Missouri Botanical Gardens web site (www.missouribotanicalgarden.org) |
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