Polemonium carneum
Polemonium carneum | |
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Polemonium carneum in southern Oregon | |
Scientific classification ![]() | |
Kingdom: | Plantae |
Clade: | Tracheophytes |
Clade: | Angiosperms |
Clade: | Eudicots |
Clade: | Asterids |
Order: | Ericales |
Family: | Polemoniaceae |
Genus: | Polemonium |
Species: | P. carneum
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Binomial name | |
Polemonium carneum |
Polemonium carneum is a plant native to the northwestern United States west of the crest of the Cascade Range, from Washington south through Oregon to the San Francisco Bay Area in California.
Etymology
[edit]Common names include royal Jacob's-ladder,[1] great polemonium, Oregon polemonium and salmon polemonium.
Habitat
[edit]It grows in the lowlands and in prairies to moderate elevations in the mountains, and inhabits woody thickets, open and moist forests, prairie edges, and roadsides.[2]
Description
[edit]This is a rhizomatous perennial herb producing one or more stems decumbent in form or erect to a maximum height near one meter. The leaves are compound with up to 21 leaflets each. The sticky-haired leaflets are somewhat lance-shaped and up to 4 centimeters long. The inflorescence is an open, spreading cluster of 3 to 7 flowers each borne on a thin peduncle. The flower is widely bell-shaped with a five-lobed corolla that may spread to nearly 3 centimeters wide. The flower corolla may be any shade of pale pink, salmon pink, yellow, or pale lavender to medium purple.[2]
The plant is sometimes grown in gardens as an ornamental.
References
[edit]- ^ USDA, NRCS (n.d.). "Polemonium carneum". The PLANTS Database (plants.usda.gov). Greensboro, North Carolina: National Plant Data Team. Retrieved 9 October 2015.
- ^ a b "Royal Sky Pilot, Polemonium carneum". calscape.org.
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