Firecracker penstemon

One wildflower that was hard to miss when I visited the botanical garden in Tucson named Tohono Chul on October 1, 2014, was Penstemon eatonii, known understandably as firecracker penstemon.

(While the weather is mostly cold and bleak in Austin, I’ve gone back to showing you some more of the many pictures I took on my two-week trip to the American Southwest last autumn.)

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