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Keckiella cordifolia (formerly Penstemon cordifolius) is a species of flowering shrub in the plantain family known by the common name heartleaf keckiella. It is native to the coast and coastal mountains of southern California and northern Baja California, and it is a resident of chaparral and coastal woodland plant communities. This is a spreading shrub reaching maximum heights in excess of two meters. Its shiny green leaves are oval to heart-shaped, pointed, and edged with small teeth. They are 2 to 6 centimeters long and arranged oppositely on the branches. The shrub produces hairy, hairy flower clusters of many flowers each. The flower is somewhat tubular with a wide open mouth. It is fuzzy on the external surface and any shade of pale orange to deep scarlet. It is up to 3 centimeters long and 4 wide at the mouth, which has three flat lower lobes and two joined upper lobes. Inside the mouth are long filamentous stamens and a flat, hairy, yellow sterile stamen called a staminode.
Best to place this plant in shady slopes in hotter inland areas, preferably in places with a little more natural groundwater such as slope bottoms. Place in sunny spots in cooler coastal areas.
Shrub
3 - 7 ft Tall
3 - 6 ft Wide
Rounded, Spreading
Fast
Summer Deciduous, Summer Semi-deciduous
Slight
Red
Spring, Summer
Containers, Deer resistant
Partial Shade, Full Sun
Low, Very Low
Max 1x / month once established
Moderate
Tolerates cold to 0 - -5° F
Fast, Medium, Slow
Adaptable.
Soil PH: 6 - 8
For propagating by seed: No treatment.
7, 8, 9, 14*, 15*, 16*, 17*, 18*, 19*, 20*, 21*, 22*, 23*, 24*
Rocky, well drained slopes with chaparral, often in shade, in the southern part of the state and the coastal side of the mountain ranges
Chaparral
Chamise (Adenostoma fasciculatum var. fasciculatum), Woolly Bluecurls (Trichostema lanatum), White Sage (Salvia apiana), California Buckwheat (Eriogonum fasciculatum var. fasciculatum), California Coffeeberry (Frangula californica ssp. californica), Toyon (Heteromeles arbutifolia), Lemonade Berry (Rhus integrifolia), Coastal Prickly Pear Cactus, Manzanita species, Yucca spp.
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Likely
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Confirmed
Anthidium illustre
Spined Little Carpenter Bee
Ceratina acantha
Red-tipped Digger Bee
Anthophora terminalis
Cactus Mason Bee
Ashmeadiella cactorum