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Penstemon linarioides

Penstemon linarioides

9.9
A flowering plant with narrow leaves and long clusters of blue-violet flowers
  • noun
  • Specialized
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  • Several hikers stopped to admire the striking blue-violet flowers of the Penstemon linarioides along the trail.

Examples

  • The Penstemon linarioides thrives in rocky soils across regions of Colorado and New Mexico.

  • Gardeners appreciate Penstemon linarioides for its drought tolerance and delicate floral clusters.

  • The Penstemon linarioides blooms beautifully in the summer.

  • I saw a Penstemon linarioides plant in a garden in Colorado.

  • Gardeners appreciate the Penstemon linarioides for its drought tolerance and delicate floral clusters.

  • Several hikers stopped to admire the striking blue-violet flowers of the Penstemon linarioides along the trail.

  • The Penstemon linarioides thrives in rocky soils across regions of Colorado and New Mexico.

Synonyms

narrow-leaf penstemon
vsPenstemon linarioides
  • Specialized
9.9

A plant with narrow leaves and blue-violet flowers that grows in the western United States

is the formal scientific name for the same plant

Surface Forms

Penstemon linarioides singular
Penstemon linarioideses plural

Morphology

Penstemon + linarioides

This is a Linnaean binomial: the first element 'Penstemon' identifies the genus, so a learner who knows that word can infer it refers to a species of that plant. The second element 'linarioides' is a specialized Latin epithet (not a common English word) whose descriptive content is not predictable to a B1 learner, so the overall interpretation is partially but not fully derivable from the parts.

Etymology

Penstemon linarioides may come from the look of the flower: Penstemon means 'beardtongue' because one inner part of the flower looks like a small, hairy tongue, and linarioides means 'like Linaria', a plant with narrow leaves. So the name helps you picture the blue-violet wildflower with a tongue-like part inside the bloom and thin leaves like Linaria.