Foxglove beardtongue: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penstemo

Weirdly, there’s no “etymology” section where it explains that it got its name from someone desperately looking around the room and naming random objects that came into their vision.

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Bearded man in a Firefox t-shirt wearing latex gloves and eating ice cream: “Wow, how’d it get that name?”
Naturalist: 😐

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