Polemonium pulcherrimum Hook.
 
FamilyPolemoniaceae — APG family: Polemoniaceae
SynonymsPolemonium fasciculatum Eastw., Polemonium lindleyi Wherry, Polemonium rotatum Eastw.
DescriptionUsually several branched stems from branched caudex; stem glandular-villous above, less so or glabrate below; leaves mostly basal, viscid-pubescent, with 10-15 ovate to rounded, dense or lax leaflets; calyx with glandular tube and more or less glabrate lobes, the lobes about as long as the tube; corolla blue or purplish with yellowish tube and ovate, obtuse lobes, 10-15 mm long.
EcologyDry, rocky places, in the St. Elias Mountains to at least 2,000 meters. Broken line on circumpolar map indicates range of P. hyperboreum Tolm.
Hultén's Flora About

This is a digital representation of Eric Hultén’s ‘Flora of Alaska and Neighboring Territories: A Manual of the Vascular Plants’, which was published by Stanford University Press in 1968. The book was digitized by C. Webb (at UAMN) as part of the Flora of Alaska project, with funding by the US NSF (Grant 1759964 to Ickert-Bond & Webb), and with permission of Stanford University Press. Data and images © 1968 Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Jr. Univ. Usage licence: Creative Commons BY-NC-SA 4.0. NB: You may find OCR errors; please refer to the hard-copy if in doubt.