Wildflower Guide
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5%<br />
Wild Pink Snapdragon | Penstemon palmeri<br />
A member of the Plantaginaceae (Plantain)<br />
family, notable for its showy, rounded flowers.<br />
This plant grows erect and may reach two<br />
meters in maximum height but more often less.<br />
The leaves are generally oppositely arranged<br />
and have toothed margins. The flower cluster is<br />
a panicle or raceme with small leaves.<br />
3%<br />
Prairie Conerflower | Ratibida columnaris<br />
A plant branched and leafy in lower part with<br />
long leafless stalks bearing flower heads of<br />
3-7 yellow or yellow and red-brown, drooping<br />
rays surrounding a long, red-brown central<br />
disk. Its sombrero-shaped flower heads, is<br />
usually 1 1/2 ft. tall but can reach 3 ft. Flower<br />
petals range from dark red and yellow, to all<br />
red or all yellow.<br />
2%<br />
Parry’s Penstemon | Penstemon parryi<br />
Long spikes of pink, tubular flowers line the<br />
upper portion of this perennial’s 2-3 ft. stems.<br />
The flowers occur in clusters at the ends of<br />
short, paired stalks. Several erect, sparsely<br />
leaved stems with pinkish-lavender, bilaterally<br />
symmetrical flowers in a long, open,<br />
interrupted cluster.<br />
8%<br />
Desert Bluebells | Phacelia campanularia<br />
An 8-16 in. annual with 1 in. wide, bell-shaped,<br />
deep-blue flowers. The flowers, with protruding<br />
golden anthers, are arranged in rolled, 1-sided<br />
racemes; the raceme unrolling as the flowers<br />
open. A stiff, erect, leafy, glandular-hairy plant<br />
with dark blue, bell-like flowers in loose coils at<br />
end of a branched open cluster. Leaves are<br />
round to oval.
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