Welcome to all things Penstemons!

Your Pollination Station

With some 270 species, Penstemon is the largest genus endemic to North America, with examples to be found in every state in the continental U.S.

Let’s play “concentration!”

This video is about Saving Penstemon Seeds. It’s a great pollinator sustaining plant.

Can you connect each “bee” with its home?

Color is everywhere ‘on the desert’, but, also under the desert, and over the desert. It is earth, plant, air.

Come explore birds and birding with us!

Includes bird identification, a maze, bird crossword, and bird parts match-up.

Hot, Hot, Hot, … with triple-digit temperatures and single-digit humidity levels, the desert bakes in May and June.

Includes Saguaro Seed Game, Cactus Quiz, Animals of the Desert Matching Activity, and Saguaro Word Search.

The Night Blooming Cereus, Peniocereus greggi, the aptly nick-named “The Queen of the Night”, creates an elusive flower, blooming en masse only one night of the year.

Download this week’s coloring sheets dedicated to the Queen of the Night below.

Love ’em or hate ’em, reptiles are a major player in the ecosystem of the Sonoran Desert.