Penstemon, or Foxglove (or White) Beardtongue . . . (Penstemon digitalis) A short-lived beauty,
flowering right around Summer solstice, for about a period of two weeks. Member of the Snapdragon Family.
Native to the North American Prairie. Notice not just the beautiful symmetry of the green five-part recurved
bracts which surround each flower, but also how hard the hairs work sweating off, as it were, the intense
heat of the afternoon sun.

(Photograph was made Sunday, the 23nd of June, 2002)