Penstemon newberryi - Mountain pride

Mountain pride (Penstemon newberryi) is a perennial of granite rock and scree at 5,000-9,000 ft in the Sierra Nevada, with pink flowers, growing where it is snow-covered all winter. It grows 0.1-0.5 m tall and 0.2-1 m wide.¹

Inputs

• Hardiness zone 5¹
• Hardiness zone 6¹
• Hardiness zone 7¹

Type

• Herb
• Perennial

Functions

• Fire resistance²

Dimension	At maturity
Height (m)	0.1-0.5
Diameter (m)	0.2-1

Footnotes

1. Penstemon newberryi, Mountain Pride | Las Pilitas Nursery Native Plant Database ↩ ↩² ↩³ ↩⁴

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