Firecracker penstemon
Penstemon eatonii A.Gray
- light
- Full sun
- water
- Little
- tall
- 91 cm
- wide
- 61 cm
Plantaginaceae
When it flowers
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Not known yet in the tropics: too few flowering observations to read a season from.
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Something wrong with it?About it
- Grows as
- PerennialKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Climate
- TemperateKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Wild in
- W. & WC. U.S.A.Kew's checklist, not yet checked
- Light
- Full sun (6 h or more)Read from Desert-Tropicals, one source
- Height
- 91 cmRead from Desert-Tropicals and Wikipedia, checked by a majority of its sourcesBacked by both sources. Sources differ: Desert-Tropicals 3–3 ft; Wikipedia 30–100 cm
- Spread
- 61 cmRead from Desert-Tropicals, one source
- Water
- Little: takes droughtRead from Desert-Tropicals, one source
- Flowers
- RedRead from Desert-Tropicals and Wikipedia, checked by a majority of its sourcesBacked by both sources. Sources differ: Desert-Tropicals red; Wikipedia orange, red
- Coldest it survives
- -6.7 °C (USDA zone 9a)Read from Desert-Tropicals, one source
Not known yet: heat, hottest it survives.
Where this comes from
- Wikidata, read 2026-10-25, CC0-1.0
- Kew's checklist, read 2026-10-24, CC-BY-4.0
- Desert-Tropicals, read 2026-10-25, fact, cited
- Wikipedia, read 2026-10-25, fact, cited
- Wikimedia Commons, read 2026-10-25, CC BY-SA 3.0
- 3D model: Penstemon eatonii (built for Vanagrha) by Vanagrha, own
A fact “checked by a majority of its sources” was settled by a vote of the pages it was read from, not by a person reading it; one marked “one source” rests on that page alone. Anything else not marked checked has not been checked yet. Where nothing is known, the page says so rather than guess.