Polemonium

Polemonium

:"This article is about the plant species, for the ancient city named Polemonium, see Fatsa."

Taxobox
name = "Polemonium"


image_width = 240px
image_caption = "Polemonium carneum"
regnum = Plantae
divisio = Magnoliophyta
classis = Magnoliopsida
ordo = Ericales
familia = Polemoniaceae
genus = "Polemonium"
genus_authority = L.
subdivision_ranks = Species
subdivision = See text.

"Polemonium", commonly called Jacob's ladder, is a genus of about 25 species of flowering plants in the family Polemoniaceae, native to cool temperate to arctic regions of the Northern Hemisphere and also in the southern Andes in South America. Many of the species grow at high altitudes in mountains.

They are perennial plants (rarely annual plants) growing 10–120 cm tall with bright green leaves divided into lance-shaped leaflets, and produce blue (rarely white or pink) flowers in the spring and summer.

"Polemonium" species are used as food plants by the larvae of some Lepidoptera species including "Coleophora polemoniella".

;Selected species
*"Polemonium acutifolium" Tall Jacob's Ladder
*"Polemonium antarcticum"
*"Polemonium boreale" Northern Jacob's Ladder
*"Polemonium brandegeei" Brandegee's Jacob's Ladder
*"Polemonium caeruleum" Charity
*"Polemonium californicum" Showy Jacob's Ladder
*"Polemonium carneum" Royal Jacob's Ladder
*"Polemonium chartaceum" Mason's Jacob's Ladder
*"Polemonium chinense"
*"Polemonium confertum" Rocky Mountain Jacob's Ladder
*"Polemonium cuspidatum" Stiff-point Jacob's Ladder
*"Polemonium delicatum"
*"Polemonium elegans" Elegant Jacob's Ladder
*"Polemonium eximium" Sky Pilot
*"Polemonium foliosissimum" Towering Jacob's Ladder
*"Polemonium gayanum"
*"Polemonium longii" Long's Jacob's Ladder
*"Polemonium mexicanum"
*"Polemonium micranthum" Annual Jacob's Ladder
*"Polemonium nevadense" Nevada Jacob's Ladder
*"Polemonium occidentale" Western Jacob's Ladder
*"Polemonium pauciflorum" Few-flower Jacob's Ladder
*"Polemonium pectinatum" Washington Jacob's Ladder
*"Polemonium pulcherrimum" Beautiful Jacob's Ladder
*"Polemonium reptans" Greek Valerian
*"Polemonium sumushanense"
*"Polemonium vanbruntiae" Van Brunt's Jacob's Ladder
*"Polemonium viscosum" Sticky Jacob's Ladder
*"Polemonium yezoense"

External links

* [http://www.efloras.org/florataxon.aspx?flora_id=2&taxon_id=126309 Flora of China: "Polemonium"]
* [http://ucjeps.berkeley.edu/cgi-bin/get_JM_treatment.pl?Polemonium Jepson Flora of California: "Polemonium"] (click 'next taxon' to view individual species accounts)


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  • Polemonĭum — (P. L.), Pflanzengattung aus der Familie der Polemoniaceae, 5. Kl. 1. Ord. L.; Kelch fünfspaltig, Blumenkrone radförmig fünflappig, Schlund durch die an der Basis verbreiterten Staubgefäße geschlossen, Staubbeutel aufliegend; Arten: P. caeruleum …   Pierer's Universal-Lexikon

  • Polemonĭum — L., Gattung der Polemoniazeen, ein oder mehrjährige Kräuter mit abwechselnden, fiederschnittigen Blättern, endständigen, lockern bis fast kopfigen Sträußen ansehnlicher blauer, violetter oder weißer Blüten und dreiklappigen, wenigsamigen Kapseln …   Meyers Großes Konversations-Lexikon

  • Polemonium — Polemonĭum L., Pflanzengattg. der Polemoniazeen, Kräuter mit traubigen Blütenständen. P. coerulĕum L. (Sperrkraut, Jakobsleiter), in den Alpen und Süddeutschland wild, sonst Zierpflanze mit blauen Blüten …   Kleines Konversations-Lexikon

  • Polemonium —   [griechisch], die Gattung Sperrkraut.   …   Universal-Lexikon

  • POLEMONIUM — Cappadociae urbs. Ptol. in ora Ponti. Vatiza Nigro, aliis Leona, inter Amitum, ac Trapeyuntem. Portum habet cognominem, teste Stephanô …   Hofmann J. Lexicon universale

  • polemonium — noun any plant of the genus Polemonium; most are low growing often foul smelling plants of temperate to Arctic regions • Hypernyms: ↑herb, ↑herbaceous plant • Hyponyms: ↑Jacob s ladder, ↑Greek valerian, ↑charity, ↑Polemonium caeruleum …   Useful english dictionary

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