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Keckiella cordifolia

Heart Leaved Penstemon and Climbing Penstemon.

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Climbing Penstemon, Heart leaved Keckiella, or Heartleaf Keckiella, Keckiella cordifolia  is hanging over our driveway and is native from about Santa Margarita  south to San Diego. This Native Penstemon was all over the north and east slopes of Los Angeles and parts of Southern California. A great addition to a native garden. - grid24_24
Climbing Penstemon, Heart leaved Keckiella, or Heartleaf Keckiella, Keckiella cordifolia  is hanging over our driveway and is native from about Santa Margarita  south to San Diego. This Native Penstemon was all over the north and east slopes of Los Angeles and parts of Southern California. A great addition to a native garden. - grid24_24
Keckiella cordifolia, Heart Leaf Penstemon, is very showy when several plants are massed together. - grid24_24
Annas Hummingbird, Calypte anna, hanging on a wire for Keckiella cordifolia, Heart Leaf Penstemon. This Penstemon likes part shade. - grid24_24
Here Keckiella cordifolia, Heart Leaf Penstemon, is growing under a Quercus agrifolia, mixed in with Toxicodendron diversilobum.  - grid24_24
Heart leaf Penstemon along 101 north  of San Luis Obispo - grid24_24
There are some pretty native plants growing in Southern California. - grid24_24
Keckiella cordifolia Heart Leaved Penstemon and Climbing Penstemon. play movie

Heart Leaf Penstemon, Keckiella cordifolia, is a 3' to 6' sprawling subshrub that is evergreen in mild climates with a little watering, deciduous in winter cold or under drought stress. The flowers are tubular, red, 1"to 2" long, emerging from May to July. Native to dry slopes, cismontane (west side of the Sierra Nevada mountains) central and southern California. It likes sun to part shade, usually seen on eastern slopes in our area of central California.

Climbing Penstemon is very drought tolerant, fairly deer proof, looks like an Abelia with bright red-orange flowers. Cold tolerant to -5 degrees F or lower. Summer deciduous unless given some water. A very significant hummingbird flower. This plant spills down hillsides in cascades of summer color. Keckiella cordifolia is another one you can see from the freeway. Great in the background of a large perennial garden or above a north slope walkway in the interior or desert climates, and sunny southern slopes along the coast. In the northwest this most popular of bush Penstemons might be useful to mix with your natives as this one has dark green shiny foliage that should intermix well with many of your plants; though make sure you give it a  place with air movement. 

Heart Leaf Penstemon works well with Coffeeberry, Ribes or manzanitas.

Native on the SM nursery site.


Keckiella cordifolia is great for a bird garden.
Foliage of Keckiella cordifolia has color green and is deciduous.
Flower of Keckiella cordifolia has color red.

Communities for Keckiella cordifolia:Chaparral and Coastal Sage Scrub.

ph: 6.00 to 8.00
usda: 7 to 10
height[m]: 1.00 to 2.00
width[m]: 1.00 to 2.00
rainfall[cm]: 31.00 to 120.00

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