Penstemon digitalis which repeat with two flowers multiple times. The pedicels are almost one fourth of an inch long and produce 1.25 inch long two-lipped tubular flowers over dark green foliage. The plant has elliptic basal leaves and lance-shaped to oblong stem leaves. It is called beardtongue because the plant has a fifth stamen which resembles a hairy beard due to having small hairs. "Penstemon" is a combination of the Greek words, "penta", "five" and "stemon", referring to the stamen, every flower containing five stamens. Four of the stamens are fertile while the fifth one is sterile. The Latin word "digitalis" means
Drug pollution Drug pollution Drug pollution or pharmaceutical pollution is pollution of the environment with pharmaceutical drugs and their metabolites, which reach the aquatic environment (groundwater, rivers, lakes, and oceans) through wastewater. Drug pollution is therefore mainly a form of water pollution. "Pharmaceutical pollution is now detected in waters throughout the world," said a scientist at the Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies in Millbrook, New York. "Causes include aging infrastructure, sewage overflows and agricultural runoff. Even when wastewater makes it to sewage treatment facilities, they aren't equipped to remove pharmaceuticals." Most such pollution comes simply from the drugs having been cleared and