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Perennials
Husker Red
- Genus: Penstemon
- Species: Digitalis
- Family: Plantaginaceae (Plantain family)
- Name: Husker Red
- Common names: Foxglove penstemon, beardtongue
- Flowers: 2 upper and 3 lower lips
- Form: Tubular
- Size: 1" (2.5 cm) long
- Colour: Very pale violet with thin purple stripes
- Leaves: Opposite or whorled
- Shape: Lanceolate (pointed at both ends)
- Margin: Entire (even, emooth throughout)
- Colour: Green above and ruby red unerneath
- Height: 2.5' to 5' (76.2 cm to 1.5 m)
- Exposure: Full sun to light shade
- Soil: Well drained, humus rich, evenly moist
- Propagation:
- Divide every 4 to 6 years
- Sow seeds outdoors in fall
- Hardiness: 4 to 8
- Reference: Rodale's Illustrated Encyclopedia of Perennials
- Location:: Artist garden, zone 4b
- Comments: Garden Journal
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