Shrubby Penstemon delivers eye-catching color
Shrubby Penstemon is one of the many plants that has found a new taxonomic home based on its DNA fingerprint.
(Photo courtesy KINNIKINNICK NATIVE PLANT SOCIETY)
Plant taxonomy — the study of the principles and practice of classification — has been debated among botanists since 1753 when Carl Linneaus, Swedish physician, naturalist, and taxonomist, published his two-volume "Species Plantarum". Describing more than 7,300 species, it is accepted today, around the world, as the beginning of the binomial (two names) system of classifying plants used globally today....
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