Hardiness zones:
Sunset 2-3, 10, 12-21
USDA 5-10

Landscape Use: Spring color, accent, landscape border, xeriscape

Form & Character: Rosetting to upright, stiff and rigid

Growth Habit: Herbaceous perennial, bushy and clumping with upright flower spikes, 4' tall

Foliage/texture: Opposite, thick glabrous, clasping leaves, glaucous, serrate margins, medium texture

Flowers & fruits: Flowers in spikes, corolla to 3/4" long, bright rosy pink to purplish pink, scarcely 2-lipped, stamen sometimes bearded. Fruit a greenish capsule.

Seasonal color: Striking rosy pink flowers in March-April

Temperature: Actively growing during cooler time of year

Light: Full sun

Soil: Well drained

Watering: Infrequent

Pruning: Remove spent flower spikes unless harvesting seed.

Propagation: Seed

Disease and pests: Root rot only if soil poorly drained

Additional comments: Wonderfully spectacular spring accent plant for desert gardens. Will reseed some, which like other penstemon is to your advantage. Blooms a litle after P. eatonii and P. parryi.