California Polemonium

Polemonium californicum

Summary 6

Polemonium californicum is a species of flowering plant in the phlox family known by the common names moving polemonium, low Jacob's ladder, and California Jacob's ladder. It is native to the northwestern United States, where it grows in shady and moist habitat, such as mountain woodlands. It is a hairy, glandular rhizomatous perennial herb forming clumps of several decumbent to erect stems 30 to 50 centimeters in maximum height. The leaves are up to 20 centimeters...

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  1. (c) 2009 Barry Breckling, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC-SA), http://calphotos.berkeley.edu/cgi/img_query?seq_num=304198&one=T
  2. (c) 1987 Gary A. Monroe, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC), http://calphotos.berkeley.edu/cgi/img_query?seq_num=120675&one=T
  3. (c) 1983 Gary A. Monroe, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC), http://calphotos.berkeley.edu/cgi/img_query?seq_num=120676&one=T
  4. (c) 2009 Barry Breckling, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC-SA), http://calphotos.berkeley.edu/cgi/img_query?seq_num=304200&one=T
  5. (c) 1998 California Academy of Sciences, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC-SA), http://calphotos.berkeley.edu/cgi/img_query?seq_num=15266&one=T
  6. (c) Wikipedia, some rights reserved (CC BY-SA), http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polemonium_californicum

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Color blue, purple