North Carolina Wildflowers, Shrubs, & Trees

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Plantaginaceae
Recently radically reorganized, the Plantaginaceae now contains several genera formerly placed in the Scrophulariaceae.
	Southern Beardtongue (Penstemon australis) Person Co., NC 13 June 2006 Common in the NC coastal plain and fairly common in dry soils in the piedmont.
	Southern Beardtongue (Penstemon australis) Person Co., NC 13 June 2006 The flower tube contains staminodes with hairs, thus giving rise to the common name of the genus (beardtongues).
	Southern Beardtongue (Penstemon australis) Person Co., NC 13 June 2006 Leaves opposite, stem hairy.

Annotated habitat and distribution information listed above is from Radford, Ahles, & Bell. 1968. Manual of the Vascular Flora of the Carolinas. UNC Press; and from personal observations and discussions with Will Cook, Harry LeGrand, and Bob Wilbur. Common names from personal experience and supplemented by the following resources USDA plants website, Flora of the Carolinas, Virginia, and Georgia, and NatureServe.