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Beardtongues
Every rated Penstemon record is fire-resistant — 21 of 35 records, including the genus rated as a group; none is condemned. These counts describe the cited records — 35 records carrying 68 evidence rows from 20 cited sources; they do not make one verdict for the genus.
Rated as a group: Beardtongue Penstemon Fire-resistant Consensus 13 sources rate the genus as a
whole. Species evidence never rolls upward into a genus verdict, and genus claims never
override a species record.
› Fire-resistant
20 species
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Palmer Penstemon Fire-resistant Penstemon palmeri -
Mat Penstemon Fire-resistant Penstemon caespitosus -
Rocky Mountain Penstemon Fire-resistant Penstemon strictus -
‘Red Riding Hood’ Penstemon Fire-resistant Penstemon barbatus -
Firecracker Penstemon Fire-resistant Penstemon eatonii -
Foxglove Penstemon Fire-resistant Penstemon cobaea -
Front Range beardtongue Fire-resistant Penstemon virens -
Pineleaf Penstemon Fire-resistant Penstemon pinifolius -
Sidebells penstemon Fire-resistant Penstemon secundiflorus -
Whipple's Penstemon Fire-resistant Penstemon whippleanus -
Barrett's Beardtongue Fire-resistant Penstemon barrettiae -
Blue Penstemon Fire-resistant Penstemon cyaneus -
Davidson's Penstemon Fire-resistant Penstemon davidsonii -
Davidson's Penstemon Fire-resistant Penstemon davidsonii v. davidsonii -
Germander beardtongue Fire-resistant Penstemon teucrioides -
Green Mat Penstemon Fire-resistant Penstemon davidsonii v. menziesii -
Payette Beardtongue Fire-resistant Penstemon payettensis - Penstemon Fire-resistant Penstemon hybrid
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Shrubby Penstemon Fire-resistant Penstemon fruticosus -
Thickleaf Penstemon Fire-resistant Penstemon pachyphyllus
Awaiting evidence
14 species
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Hairy beardtongue Awaiting evidence Penstemon canescens -
Smooth beardtongue Awaiting evidence Penstemon laevigatus -
Los Alamos Beardtongue Awaiting evidence Penstemon alamosensis -
sand penstemon Awaiting evidence Penstemon ambiguus -
Cardwell's Beardtongue Awaiting evidence Penstemon cardwellii - Penstemon Awaiting evidence Penstemon heterophyllus
- Penstemon, Azure Awaiting evidence Penstemon azureus
- Penstemon, gray Awaiting evidence Penstemon humilis
- Penstemon, hot-rock Awaiting evidence Penstemon deustus
- Penstemon, meadow Awaiting evidence Penstemon rydbergii var. oreocharis
- Penstemon, mountain pride Awaiting evidence Penstemon newberryi
- Penstemon, Whorled or Sierra Awaiting evidence Penstemon heterodoxus
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Sand Penstemon Awaiting evidence Penstemon arenicola -
Siskiyou Beardtongue Awaiting evidence Penstemon anguineus
About beardtongues
Corpus context. Penstemon is the directory's #6 largest of 550 genus groups: 35 records carrying 68 evidence rows from 20 cited sources, recorded as perennial, shrub, groundcover , hardy across USDA zones 3–8. Those are corpus facts, not a whole-genus flammability claim.
More about Penstemon: Wikipedia — external references; not evidence sources.