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Wind Cave National Park
Wildflowers - Slender Penstemon
 
Slender Penstemon, Slender Beardtongue - Penstemon gracilis
NPS Photo by Jim Pisarowicz
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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boxwork

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Wind Cave is one of the longest caves in the world and has an amazing amount of a rare cave formation called boxwork.
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Last Updated: June 16, 2007 at 13:18 MST