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Elegant Jacob's-ladder

Polemonium elegans

Also called Elegant Polemonium

Elegant Jacob's-ladder
Photo: Walter Siegmund, CC BY 2.5
Family
Polemoniaceae (Polemoni family)
Grows as
Perennial
Native range
C. British Columbia to N. California
Climate
temperate

About

Polemonium elegans, the elegant Jacob's-ladder, is species of the phlox family found in the United States.

Other Polemonium plants

Tall Jacob's-ladder · Northern Jacob's-ladder · Brandegee's Jacob's-ladder · Jacob's Ladder · Moving polemonium · Royal Jacob's-ladder · Mason's Jacob's-ladder · Rocky Mountain Jacob's-ladder · Mount Eddy Jacob's-ladder · Skypilot · Towering Jacob's-ladder · Annual polemonium

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Polemonium elegans by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts are shared under the same licence.

Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.

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