Polemonium viscosum: taxon details and analytics
- Domain
- Kingdom
- Plantae
- Phylum
- Tracheophyta
- Class
- Magnoliopsida
- Order
- Ericales
- Family
- Polemoniaceae
- Genus
- Polemonium
- Species
- Polemonium viscosum
- Scientific Name
- Polemonium viscosum
Summary description from Wikipedia:
Polemonium viscosum
Polemonium viscosum, known as sky pilot, skunkweed, sticky Jacobs-ladder, and sticky polemonium, is a flowering plant in the genus Polemonium native to western North America from southern British Columbia east to Montana and south to Arizona and New Mexico, where it grows at high altitudes on dry, rocky sites.
It is a perennial herbaceous plant growing 10–30 cm tall, with pinnate leaves up to 15 cm long with numerous small spoon-shaped leaflets 1.5–6 mm long and 1–3 mm broad. It has purple flowers 17–25 mm long.
It is grown as an ornamental plant in rock gardens.
...Polemonium viscosum in languages:
- English
- sky pilot
- English
- skypilot
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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





























































































































































