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Wildflowers - Slender Penstemon
 
Slender Penstemon, Slender Beardtongue - Penstemon gracilis
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Slender Penstemon, Slender Beardtongue - Penstemon gracilis
 
The Slender Penstemon is one of the later blooming penstemons in the park.  The Lakota used the roots as a snake-bite medicine.
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Blue Flax  

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Blue Flax is often considered a subspecies of the Eurasian L. perenne which is very similar. The plant is named after Meriwether Lewis.
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