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Penstemon lyallii; photograph Nucatum amygdalarum, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons CC BY-SANucatum amygdalarum, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Penstemon lyallii (A.Gray) A.Gray

Plantaginaceae · Alberta, British Columbia +3

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Penstemon lyallii, photograph Nucatum amygdalarum, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia CommonsPenstemon lyallii, photograph Nucatum amygdalarum, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia CommonsPenstemon lyallii, photograph Matt Berger, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia CommonsPenstemon lyallii, photograph Matt Berger, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia CommonsPenstemon lyallii, photograph Spencer Quayle, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons 6 photographs ›

About the genus · Penstemon

Penstemon, the beardtongues, is a large genus of roughly 280 species of flowering plants native to North America from northern Canada to Central America. It is the largest genus of flowering plants endemic to North America. As well as being the scientific name, penstemon is also widely used as a common name for all Penstemon species alongside beardtongues.

Quoted from Wikipedia, "Penstemon", CC BY-SA 4.0.

Cultivation

Nothing derived: no habitat climate for this species.

Climate across the habitat

No habitat climate can be derived: No georeferenced record inside the range.

Natural habitat

Native range as published by WCVP.
No openly licensed record to show inside the range.

This species has no GBIF key of its own. Its records are GBIF's under the key of the name Kew's World Checklist holds as this plant: 3732914 (Penstemon menziesii var. lyallii A.Gray, 0 records). No name was matched to GBIF; the keys are read from Kew's synonymy. How.

NativeAlberta, British Columbia, Idaho, Montana, Washington · regions are the level-3 units of the World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions, as Kew's World Checklist records ranges, some under historical names such as Yugoslavia or Czechoslovakia (how).
Kew's description“perennial or subshrub” · “temperate” · quoted from WCVP, RBG Kew (CC BY 4.0); not derived here
Evidence usedNo georeferenced records inside the stated native range.
Other GBIF keysRecords also from GBIF's key 3732914 (Penstemon menziesii var. lyallii A.Gray): Kew's file holds it as Penstemon menziesii var. lyallii A.Gray (synonym under Penstemon lyallii (A.Gray) A.Gray); 0 records, from GBIF's search API on the day of the build.

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Photographs: Nucatum amygdalarum, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (2); Matt Berger, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (2); Spencer Quayle, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons.

Other Penstemon 122 in the reference

Penstemon alamosensis Penstemon alamosensis Los Alamos beardtongue Photo: CC BY-SA, bmasintonPenstemon albertinus Penstemon albertinus Alberta beardtongue Photo: CC BY, Daughter DadPenstemon albidus Penstemon albidus White beardtongue Photo: CC0, author not statedPenstemon ambiguus Penstemon ambiguus Bush penstemon Photo: CC BY, Parker James LloydPenstemon amphorellae Penstemon amphorellae Plantaginaceae Photo: CC BY, Ricardo Jaimes-LópezPenstemon angustifolius Penstemon angustifolius Broadbeard beardtongue Photo: CC BY, Stephen HornbeckPenstemon aridus Penstemon aridus Stiffleaf penstemon Photo: CC BY, John BrewPenstemon arkansanus Penstemon arkansanus Arkansas beardtongue Photo: CC BY, hr_dragonflyPenstemon attenuatus Penstemon attenuatus Sulphur Beardtongue Photo: CC BY, Ellen EirikssonPenstemon auriberbis Penstemon auriberbis Colorado beardtongue Photo: CC BY, Elliott GordonPenstemon australis Penstemon australis Eustis Lake beardtongue Photo: CC BY, Raven DandridgePenstemon azureus Penstemon azureus Azure penstemon Photo: CC BY, Parker James Lloyd all 123 ›

Names & registers

Also known as Penstemon lyallii var. linearifolius; Penstemon menziesii var. lyallii; Penstemon linearifolius. (WCVP, RBG Kew)

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The record

Family
Plantaginaceae
Described by
(A.Gray) A.Gray
Native to
Alberta, British Columbia, Idaho +2
Wild records
none in range

Every figure here is derived from public data by a stated rule and names its source; nothing about this species is written for its page by a person or by AI, apart from the marked, credited quotations. How →

Where this page came from built 2026-10-22
Kew's names (WCVP) kew.names answeredas of 2026-06-04Kew's entry Penstemon lyallii (A.Gray) A.Gray (plant_name_id 2550130), read from Kew's names file
GBIF species record gbif.species not askedGBIF's backbone holds no one accepted species of this name, and a name it holds only as another species' synonym is not taken for this one, so GBIF's records were not asked
GBIF synonyms gbif.synonyms not askedGBIF's backbone holds no one accepted species of this name, and a name it holds only as another species' synonym is not taken for this one, so GBIF's records were not asked
GBIF common names gbif.vernacular not askedGBIF's backbone holds no one accepted species of this name, and a name it holds only as another species' synonym is not taken for this one, so GBIF's records were not asked
WCVP native range wcvp.distribution answeredas of 2026-06-04
GBIF occurrence records gbif.occurrences nothing to reportasked 2026-10-22this species has no GBIF key of its own; its records are read under GBIF's keys for the names Kew's file holds as this plant, never by a name matched; 0 records of GBIF's key 3732914, Penstemon menziesii var. lyallii A.Gray (Kew's file holds it as Penstemon menziesii var. lyallii A.Gray (synonym under Penstemon lyallii (A.Gray) A.Gray)): GBIF occurrence search API
Habitat climate climate nothing to reportasked 2026-10-22no georeferenced record inside the range
Wikidata wikidata answeredasked 2026-10-22found by Kew's IPNI identifier 187467-2, POWO 187467-2
Wikipedia wikipedia nothing to reportasked 2026-10-22
iNaturalist photographs, wild inat.photos.wild not asked
iNaturalist photographs, cultivated inat.photos.cultivated not asked
GBIF media gbif.media not askedGBIF's backbone holds no one accepted species of this name, and a name it holds only as another species' synonym is not taken for this one, so GBIF's records were not asked
Wikimedia Commons commons answeredasked 2026-10-22
OpenAlex papers openalex not askednot yet asked for this reference; a later fill takes the papers from OpenAlex's snapshot

Every source is recorded as having answered, reported nothing, refused, failed, not been asked, or answered twice where one answer is taken (“not taken: two items answered”), and, for a source asked when this page was built, when: the figures are as the source held them that day; a source read from a file (Kew's World Checklist, a GBIF download) says "as of" the file's day instead; a row carried from an earlier build of the page names that build instead. Only “nothing to report” is ever shown as an absence.

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