Polemonium viscosum
| Polemonium viscosum | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| (unranked): | Angiosperms |
| (unranked): | Eudicots |
| (unranked): | Asterids |
| Order: | Ericales |
| Family: | Polemoniaceae |
| Genus: | Polemonium |
| Species: | P. viscosum |
| Binomial name | |
| Polemonium viscosum Nutt. | |
Polemonium viscosum, known by the common names sky pilot, skunkweed, sticky Jacobs-ladder, 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.
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- Plants of British Columbia: Polemonium viscosum
- NRCS: USDA Plants Profile Polemonium viscosum, , Range Map-(w/out CA):
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