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Native plant: Penstemon deustus (Hot-rock beardtongue, Hot-rock penstemon, Scabland penstemon) The stems grow in clusters from a woody base and have dingy white or cream bilaterally symmetrical flowers in several whorls in axils of leafy bracts. The sub-shrubby branches of this perennial form clumps 8-24 in. high. Its leaves are toothed and bright green, subtending short, whorled clusters of yellowish flowers, marked purple. The flowers are more interesing (at close range) than showy.
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Mr. Smarty Plants: I have been to Austin a few times, but never during wildflower season. Can you suggest to me what would be the ideal time to come?
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Supplier: A V Seeds (Longmont, CO) We supply the majority of our native seed and seed mixes to reclamation and revegetation companies. We have five branches in three states.
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Organization: Betty Ford Alpine Gardens (Vail, CO)
Collects and displays herbaceous plants, trees and shrubs primarily native to the North American Rocky Mountains; public education on plants which grow in mountain region.
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Book: "Plants of the Tahoe Basin: Flowering Plants, Trees, & Ferns" (University of California Press) Amazon.com This is the first comprehensive illustrated guide to the trees, ferns, and flowering plants of the Tahoe Basin. Covering more than 600 species, many of them rare, and with over 300 color photographs, here is the most complete and up-to-date wildflower guide available for this floristically rich region.
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