Polemonium acutiflorum Willd. | |||
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Family | Polemoniaceae — APG family: Polemoniaceae | ||
Synonyms | Polemonium pacificum Vassiljev., Polemonium coeruleum | ||
Description | Stems solitary, erect, from rootstock, viscid-pubescent above, glabrous below, with 2 to several leaves; leaves pinnate with lanceolate to elliptic, acute leaflets; calyx campanulate, longer than pedicels, with 5 acute lobes; corolla blue to violet, ciliate in margin; style about as long as corolla; capsule globular. | ||
Ecology | Wet meadows, along streams. Described from the northwest coast of North America. | ||
Taxonomy notes | Very common and highly variable: arctic and alpine specimens with 2-3 stem leaves; inland specimens tall and narrow-leaved; coastal specimens short and broad- leaved. |
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.