Hill Country Penstemon
Penstemon triflorus
Hill Country penstemon is a Texas endemic with vivid rose-pink, candy-striped tubes on limestone hills, a heat- and drought-proof beardtongue for alkaline soils.
- Family
- Plantaginaceae
- Type
- wildflower
- Lifespan
- perennial
- Height
- 1–2 ft
- Spacing
- 1–1.5 ft apart
- Light
- sun
- Soil moisture
- dry
- Soil pH
- alkaline
- Bloom
- April, May
- Bloom colors
- red, pink
- Wildlife value
- hummingbirds, pollinators, larval host
- Caterpillar hosts
- ~8 butterfly & moth species
- Landscape uses
- border, container
- Native states
- TX
Related native plants
More Penstemon species
- Large Beardtongue (Penstemon grandiflorus)
- Foxglove Beardtongue (Penstemon digitalis)
- Cobaea Beardtongue (Penstemon cobaea)
- Scarlet Bugler (Penstemon centranthifolius)
- Palmer's Penstemon (Penstemon palmeri)
- Beardlip Penstemon (Penstemon barbatus)