Polemonium pulcherrimum: taxon details and analytics
- Domain
- Kingdom
- Plantae
- Phylum
- Tracheophyta
- Class
- Magnoliopsida
- Order
- Ericales
- Family
- Polemoniaceae
- Genus
- Polemonium
- Species
- Polemonium pulcherrimum
- Scientific Name
- Polemonium pulcherrimum
Summary description from Wikipedia:
Polemonium pulcherrimum
Polemonium pulcherrimum is a species of flowering plant in the phlox family known by several common names, including beautiful Jacob's-ladder, showy Jacob's-ladder, and skunk-leaved polemonium. It is native to western North America from Alaska and Yukon to Arizona and New Mexico, where it can be found in many types of mountain habitat, including alpine talus and rock cracks at high elevations. It is a common and widespread wildflower in several regions. It is a perennial herb producing a clump of several erect stem approaching a maximum height of 30 centimeters. The leaves are mostly basal, with smaller ones arranged along the stem. The leaves are made up of several pairs of lance-shaped to oval or round leaflets. The herbage is lightly hairy, densely glandular, sticky, and strongly scented, the odor reminiscent of skunk. The showy inflorescence is a dense elongated or headlike cluster of bell-shaped flowers each just under a centimeter wide. The flower is deep to bright or pale blue to nearly white with a yellow throat.
...Polemonium pulcherrimum in languages:
- English
- Pretty Jacob's-ladder
- English
- Beautiful Jacob's-Ladder
- English
- Showy Jacob's-ladder
- English
- Pretty Jacobs-ladder
- Russian
- Синюха красивейшая
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Parent Taxon
Sibling Taxa
- Polemonium acutiflorum
- Polemonium apachianum
- Polemonium boreale
- Polemonium brandegeei
- Polemonium caeruleum
- Polemonium californicum
- Polemonium campanulatum
- Polemonium carneum
- Polemonium caucasicum
- Polemonium chartaceum
- Polemonium chinense
- Polemonium confertum
- Polemonium eddyense
- Polemonium elegans
- Polemonium elusum
- Polemonium eximium
- Polemonium foliosissimum
- Polemonium glabrum
- Polemonium grandiflorum
- Polemonium hingganicum
- Polemonium kiushianum
- Polemonium majus
- Polemonium mexicanum
- Polemonium micranthum
- Polemonium nevadense
- Polemonium occidentale
- Polemonium pauciflorum
- Polemonium pectinatum
- Polemonium pulchellum
- Polemonium pulcherrimum
- Polemonium reptans
- Polemonium sachalinense
- Polemonium schizanthum
- Polemonium schmidtii
- Polemonium sumushanense
- Polemonium vanbruntiae
- Polemonium villosissimum
- Polemonium villosum
- Polemonium viscosum
- Polemonium × speciosum
- Polemonium × victoris































































































































































