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| has gloss | (noun) plant with bright red tubular flowers in long narrow clusters near tips of erect stems; coastal ranges from central California southward Penstemon centranthifolius, scarlet bugler |
| has gloss | eng: Penstemon californicus is a species of penstemon known by the common name scarlet bugler. It is native to California and parts of Mexico, where it grows in many types of dry habitat from coast to desert, such as chaparral and oak woodland. It is a perennial herb with many straight, hairless, erect branches which may exceed one meter in maximum height. The thick, untoothed leaves may be up to 10 centimeters long and are arranged oppositely, with some pairs fused together about the stem. The top of the stem is occupied by a long inflorescence bearing narrow tubular flowers with small projecting lobes at the lips, the longest flowers 3 centimeters long. The flowers are bright red to orange-red and hairless all over, including the staminode. This species commonly hybridizes with showy penstemon (P. spectabilis), a species with wide-mouthed purple-blue flowers, to produce a penstemon with pinkish-purple flowers which is intermediate in size named Penstemon × parishii. |
| lexicalization | eng: Penstemon centranthifolius |
| lexicalization | eng: scarlet bugler |
| subclass of | (noun) wild or uncultivated flowering plant wildflower, wild flower |
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