Prairie beardtongue, foxglove penstemon, Penstemon cobaea. Native to North America, found by English botanist Thomas Nuttall in the prairies of the Red River. Cobaea-flowered pentstemon, Pentstemon cobaea (sic). Handcoloured engraving from Joseph Paxton’s Magazine of Botany, and Register of Flowering Plants, Volume 4, Orr and Smith, London, 1837.

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