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2017 Summer Newsletter AMERICAN PENSTEMON SOCIETY— Http://PENSTEMONS.ORG TheNEWSLETTER Pe OF THE n AMERICAN st e m PENSTEMON a n iSOCIETY a c ESTABLISHED 1946 VOLUME 11 NO 3 SUMMER 2017 This picture shows the hillside and parking lot of the first stop on the North field trip, Monday June 5, 30 miles out of Vernal. THE PENSTEMANIAC | Vernal’sSUMMER altitude2017 | P isAGE 5,328’ 1 and this area is 3000’ higher. Photo by Andrey Zarkikh, courtesy of Catherine King. AMERICAN PENSTEMON SOCIETY— Http://PENSTEMONS.ORG Penstemon Adventure Table of Contents in the Uinta Basin Penstemon Adventure in the Uinta Basin ...............2 by Catherine King Recollections of Hell’s Hole Canyon ..................... 10 Editor’s note: we are grateful to Catherine Letter from the President ..................................... 11 King, author of this Article, for granting The Mystery of Penstemon Hesperius .................. 12 permission to allow The Penstemaniac to Final Project Report to American Penstemon reprint her article appearing in the Summer Society Special Projects Grants Program ....... 14 volume of UNPS’s Newsletter, SegoLily Update on key to Genus Penstemon on “Flora of Vol. 40 No 3. North America” Volume 17 ............................. 17 New Members ...................................................... 17 The American Penstemon Society 2018 APS Annual Meeting – Las Vegas NV ......... 18 (APS) has been hosting annual meetings Call for Seeds: APS 2017-18 ................................ 19 for decades, where penstemon lovers, Jackpot! Noel’s 5-Penstemon Discovery Day ....... 20 fondly known as “penstemaniacs,” gather American Penstemon Society Membership Form . 21 together to see penstemons growing in AmazonSmile .......................................................22 their native habitats. This year’s meeting 2017 APS meeting in Vernal Utah ........................23 was in Vernal, Utah and I admit to being APS Officers ........................................................ 24 very excited about this meeting. As an amateur botanist, with an emphasis on penstemons are a favorite genus, right up there with amateur, I looked forward to spending eriogonums and astragalus. time out in the field seeing a wide variety On a field trip planned by the Salt Lake Chapter of fantastic penstemons that I have nev- of the Utah Native Plant Society (UNPS) and led by er seen before and spending time with a Leila Shultz to Tony Grove in the summer of 2016, group of people who share my enthusiasm Bill and I ran into Pat and Noel Holmgren, who had for what I consider to be one of the most joined in on the fun. Along the way, they mentioned beautiful of native plants. As a gardener, that they were planning the American Penstemon Four botanists extraordinaire. Left, Robert Johnson and Mikel Stevens, field guides (photo by Cathy King). Center and left, Pat and Noel Holmgren, organizers (photos by Wayne Padgett). THE PENSTEMANIAC | SUMMER 2017 | PAGE 2 AMERICAN PENSTEMON SOCIETY— Http://PENSTEMONS.ORG Society Meeting to be held in the Uinta Basin tendees at the meeting, well over a third were on June 2-5 of 2017 and asked if UNPS would UNPS members, many of whom also belong like to be co-sponsors. We took the idea back to the American Penstemon Society, which to the next meeting of the UNPS Board of has been in existence even longer than UNPS. Directors, which agreed we would be happy to Since Utah is considered the epicenter for be co-sponsors. APS had already done most penstemons, there was much enthusiasm for of the work organizing the meeting, and you this meeting, which was further augmented by can be sure, it is a lot of work to organize a the fact that one of the world’s experts on the meeting like that. genus, Noel Holmgren, was involved. UNPS was, however, able to provide some The venue for the meeting was the Uintah support for the meeting, with several very Conference Center in Vernal, a capacious and skilled field guides, including Bill Gray, Wayne modern facility that met every need for the Padgett, and the previously mentioned Leila conference. The banquets on both Friday and Shultz, along with some assistance to APS’s Saturday nights were catered by a local Dutch capable Mary Mastin at the registration desk oven operation, Smoke’n Pots, which offered and created a nice hat design to commemo- up the regional flavor and character of the rate the meeting. We also promoted the meet- Uinta Basin. ing among UNPS members at every oppor- Sherel Goodrich, who literally wrote the tunity; at the UNPS Annual Meeting, through book on the Uinta Basin, Uinta Basin Flora, UNPS chapter meetings, and this newsletter. co-authored in 1986 with Elizabeth Neese and And of course, as a co-sponsor of the meeting, updated in 2016 with Allen Huber, was the we were also equally liable for any problems speaker on the opening night of the meeting that might arise. with a presentation on “Uinta Basin Endemics.” The APS organizing committee, led by the And therein lies so much of the appeal of the Holmgrens, attracted an impressive group of Uinta Basin; beyond its stunning scenery and experts for this meeting, as speakers, field geological formations, are the mind-boggling guides, and attendees. Among these were numbers of endemics that grow in the area, botanists from Utah State University, Brigham not limited to just penstemons. Young University, Ohio State University, US Sherel’s presentation was clever, suggest- Bureau of Land Management, Utah Division of ing that he had learned all of his geology from Wildlife Resources, US Forest Service, USDA the information signs posted by the BLM along Natural Resources Conservation Service, and the roadsides explaining the various geological The Nature Conservancy. The social hours in formations. This may or may not be the case, the evenings almost felt like a family reunion but it certainly tuned us into the signage as we of sorts, as so many people knew each other drove along and made us even more aware of and enjoyed catching up on old times. And the changes in rocks, from shale to limestone new people were easily pulled into conversa- to sandstone, all of which would clearly influ- tions because the universal language of plants ence the plant material growing from it. was being spoken. Any questions on the field The speaker for Saturday night was Dr. trips were easily answered by any number of Robert Johnson, Collections Manager at the people, creating an exceptionally enjoyable Stanley L. Welsh Herbarium at Brigham Young learning experience. Of the more than 100 at- University. Robert gave a personal and enter- THE PENSTEMANIAC | SUMMER 2017 | PAGE 3 AMERICAN PENSTEMON SOCIETY— Http://PENSTEMONS.ORG taining talk about his relationship to the plant world, a message that needs to be shared with many other non-plant people. It was light-hearted and enjoyed by all. There were three different days of field trips, heading north, south and west of Vernal, (elevation 5328’). The groups rotated between the south and west trips and attendees that stayed on for the last day participated in the final field trip to the north. There were a lot of cars for each of the field trips, which is a dif- ficult thing to manage, but the well-organized Penstemon grahamii, Graham penstemon. field trip leaders had scouted out the best plac- Pre-conference scouting. Photo ©Richard Jonas. es to park and carefully managed the caravans mon albifluvis and Penstemon grahamii. We as they moved from one venue to another. were especially fortunate to have as our field Noel Holmgren prepared a Penstemon Key trip leaders Mike Stevens and Robert John- specifically for the Uinta Basin and vicinity son, both from BYU, who, in conjunction with that was inserted into each meeting packet, Andrea Wolfe of Ohio State University (who so those who were more scientifically inclined joined us, along with a group of her gradu- could determine which penstemon they were ate students), have been conducting genet- viewing. However, as mentioned, there were ic research on P. albifluvis, the White River many experts at hand who willingly offered Penstemon, an endemic that grows on shale their expertise, so one could default to that slopes close to the river of the same name. At expeditious method of identification, or to the photographic “cheat sheet” prepared by Ginny Maffitt, editor of the APS newsletter. Field Trip South of Vernal Penstemon albifluvis, syn. P. scariosus var. albi- fluvis (White River penstemon) South of Vernal. Closeup photo ©Richard Jonas. our first stop, we saw a small population of this pretty penstemon in full and glorious bloom, The field trip to the south of Vernal prom- one of the best sightings of the trip. The other ised the opportunity to see two of the most endemic was Penstemon grahamii, which also rare and endangered penstemons, Penste- lives on shale in difficult growing conditions, THE PENSTEMANIAC | SUMMER 2017 | PAGE 4 AMERICAN PENSTEMON SOCIETY— Http://PENSTEMONS.ORG naria) hookerii, Aquilegia barnebyi, shale columbine. Chamaechaenactis scaposa, Gilia steno- thyrsa, Tetraneuris acaulis, Asclepias cryptoc- eras, Abronia elliptica (fragrans) Field Trip West of Vernal Penstemon albifluvis, syn. P. scariosus var. albi- fluvis (White River penstemon) South of Vernal. Photo Andrey Zarkikh. but was, unfortunately, past peak bloom. We were lucky to find one plant with three perfect flowers, but what a lovely plant it was. The next day, the other group found more plants with new blooms. On the field trip venturing to the west of A non-penstemon endemic on this field Vernal, our expectations included Penstemon trip, was Aquilegia barnebeyi, a columbine of flowersii, P. duchesnensis, P. goodrichii, and delicate flower and leaf that belied the harsh P. angustifolius var. vernalensis, and we were conditions from which it emerged. We found it not to be disappointed. It must be realized that to be charming and the shale itself to be most these penstemons are few and far between in attractive.
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