Keckiella breviflora - Yawning penstemon

Yawning penstemon (Keckiella breviflora) is a sprawling, stress-deciduous subshrub of California foothill and mountain woodlands, leaning on rocks or neighboring plants and dropping its leaves under summer drought. It grows 0.7-1.5 m tall and 1-1.5 m wide.¹

Inputs

• Hardiness zone 6¹
• Hardiness zone 7¹
• Hardiness zone 8¹
• Hardiness zone 9¹
• Hardiness zone 10¹
• Semi-shade¹
• Well drained soil¹

Type

• Shrub
• Deciduous

Functions

• Fire resistance²
• Drought-tolerance¹
• Attracting beneficial insects¹
• Wildlife habitat¹

Dimension	At maturity
Height (m)	0.7-1.5
Diameter (m)	1-1.5

Footnotes

1. Keckiella breviflora, Yawning Penstemon | Las Pilitas Nursery Native Plant Database ↩ ↩² ↩³ ↩⁴ ↩⁵ ↩⁶ ↩⁷ ↩⁸ ↩⁹ ↩¹⁰ ↩¹¹

2. Leaf burn times of California native plants, Las Pilitas Nursery, 2005 propane-torch ignition trial, live-leaf ignition time >60 seconds ↩