Overview

Distribution

Localities documented in Tropicos sources

Penstemon linarioides A. Gray:
United States (North America)
Mexico (Mesoamerica)

Note: This information is based on publications available through Tropicos and may not represent the entire distribution. Tropicos does not categorize distributions as native or non-native.
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National Distribution

United States

Origin: Unknown/Undetermined

Regularity: Regularly occurring

Currently: Unknown/Undetermined

Confidence: Confident

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Global Range: Utah (soutwest Beaver, west Iron, Washington, and Kane Counties), adjacent Nevada (to Sheep Range), south throughout most of Arizona and east to southwest Colorado and western New Mexico.

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Physical Description

Type Information

Possible Syntype for Penstemon linarioides A. Gray
Catalog Number: US 95269
Collection: Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of Natural History, Department of Botany
Verification Degree: Status verified from secondary sources
Preparation: Pressed specimen
Collector(s): C. C. Parry, J. M. Bigelow, C. Wright & A. C. V. Schott
Locality: Collected? chiefly in the Valley of the Rio Grande, below Do?ana., Texas, United States, North America
  • Possible Syntype: Gray, A. 1859. Rep. U.S. Mex. Bound. Surv. 2 (1): 112.
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Ecology

Habitat

Comments: Sandy or sometimes clay soils in sagebrush, scrub oak, pinyon-juniper, and ponderosa pine communiteies, 1200-2300 m elev. Mountains and plateaus.

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Conservation

Conservation Status

National NatureServe Conservation Status

United States

Rounded National Status Rank: NNR - Unranked

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NatureServe Conservation Status

Rounded Global Status Rank: G5 - Secure

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Names and Taxonomy

Taxonomy

Comments: Arizona is the center of greatest diversity in this variable species, which comprises many subspecies that are both geographically and morphologically separable but intergrade at their points of contact. Kearney & Peebles (1951) give 4 subspecies and 1 variety Cronquist et al. (1984) give 3 varities.

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