It is native to western North America from British Columbia to Arizona and New Mexico, where it occurs in sagebrush, pine woodlands, and mountain forests.

The inflorescence bears one or more white to pink flowers with elongated tubular throats each up to about 1.5 centimeters long.

Rocky, wooded slopes, sagebrush scrub; 500–2400 m. Several subspecies named, study needed.

The plant is widely distributed, occurring at many serpentine sites throughout the western United States.

In southern Oregon specifically, P. speciosa has been known to co-occur with Darlingtonia californica the Eight Dollar Mountain Botanical Wayside, managed by the BLM (Medford District.)