If you're looking for the most beautiful of all the native plants, you've found it.  There's nothing so lovely as Foxglove Beardtongue, Penstemon Digitalis, in full bloom.  No wonder hummingbirds, butterflies, native bees, beetles, and all other manner of flying things flock to it.
 
     A long bloomer, Penstemon's beautiful, white-tinged-with-pink, tubular flowers last four or more weeks from late spring into summer. 
 
     Penstemon is clump-forming, which means it's fairly well behaved in the garden.  Its stems are sturdy enough to keep it upright, and its ground-hugging rosettes are semi-evergreen.
 
     Penstemon likes moist, well-drained soils and is deer and rabbit resistant.