''Penstemon rydbergii'', commonly known as Rydberg's penstemon or meadow penstemon, is a

perennial plant A perennial plant or simply perennial is a plant that lives more than two years. The term ('' per-'' + '' -ennial'', "through the years") is often used to differentiate a plant from shorter-lived annuals and biennials. The term is also wide ...

in the plantain family (

Plantaginaceae Plantaginaceae, the plantain family, is a large, diverse family of flowering plants in the order Lamiales that includes common flowers such as snapdragon and foxglove. It is unrelated to the banana-like fruit also called "plantain." In older cl ...

) that grows in damp, grassy meadows of the

Great Basin The Great Basin is the largest area of contiguous endorheic basin, endorheic watersheds, those with no outlets, in North America. It spans nearly all of Nevada, much of Utah, and portions of California, Idaho, Oregon, Wyoming, and Baja California ...

and Rocky Mountains of the western United States.Great Basin Wildflowers, Laird R. Blackwell, 2006, Morris Book Publishing LLC.,

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Jepson: ''Penstemon rydbergii'' var. ''oreocharis''
{{Taxonbar, from=Q17739134 rydbergii Flora of the Great Basin Flora of the Northwestern United States Flora of the Southwestern United States Flora of California Flora of New Mexico Flora of the Cascade Range Flora of the Sierra Nevada (United States) Flora without expected TNC conservation status