Penstemon smallii Gene Cline part-shaded to sunny spot with

part-shaded to sunny spot with acid

On female wax myrtles

A relic of the old Southern wilds

luminous white

the shrub earns a place wherever summer is hot and water is scarce

Penstemon smallii Gene Cline part-shaded to sunny spot withSmall's beardtongue is one of the showiest and most obliging of the eastern native penstemons, a Southern Appalachian wildflower that carries tall spires of lavender pink to rosy purple tubular flowers in late spring and holds them for weeks. Each bloom is pale throated and finely striped inside, a landing strip for the bumblebees that work the flowers, and the whole plant rises from a handsome rosette of purple veined foliage on reddish stems. The