RHH's photos with the keyword: rydberg's penstemon

This is Rydberg's Penstemon, Penstemon rydbergii, photographed along the Castle Creek Road in the Colorado Rockies. Two of my brothers and I spent an afternoon exploring that area when in Colorado for a hiking trip last summer.

These are some of the wildflowers we found growing in the lava flows around Cinder Butte in Newberry National Volcanic Monument in Oregon. You can see a bit of the lava cinders in this photo of Rydberg's Penstemon and it is even more evident in the other photos. One wildflower, the Hot-rock Penstemon grows only in lava flows and so its range is very limited.

We saw quite a few wildflowers at Lava Lands in Oregon including this Penstemon which I've identified as Rydberg's Penstemon, photographed on our hike up Lava Butte, an old cinder cone.