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Accession Data:

Polemonium viscosum Nutt.

  • Common Name: Sticky Jacobs Ladder
  • Family: Polemoniaceae Juss.

  • Country of Origin: western North America
  • Habitat: high altitudes on dry, rocky sites

  • Description:
  • USDA Zone: 4a-7b

Accession Data:

  • Accession # 200700124
  • Source: Forest Farm
  • Accession Date: 08-25-2007
  • Bench: 2308 - Nearctic
    • Currently: active - healthy
    • Qty: 3 confirmed on 03-03-2025

Classification:

  • Division: Magnoliophyta
  • Class: Magnoliopsida
  • SubClass: asterids
  • Order: Ericales
  • SubOrder:
  • Family: Polemoniaceae
  • SubFamily: Polemonioideae
  • Tribe: Polemonieae
  • SubTribe:

Flowering Data:

This accession has been observed in bloom on:
YearJanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
2025
2024
2023
2022
2021
2020
2019
2018
2017
2016
2015
2014
2013
2012
2011
2010
2009
2008
2007

References (internal):

  • EEB 3271 - Systematic Botany
  • EEB 3203 - Developmental Plant Morphology
  • EEB Greenhouse Holdings native to: Alberta / Colorado / Idaho / Montana / Oregon / Washington / Arizona / Nevada / Utah / New Mexico

References (external):

  1. The Plant List (2013). Version 1.1. Last accessed on Tuesday, 29 October, 2019.
  2. ARS-GRIN Taxonomy. Last accessed on Tuesday, 29 October, 2019.

data regenerated on Mon, 03 Mar 2025 11:36:03 -0500 [bcm v4.0]

Images:

Polemonium viscosum

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Current Accessions in the Polemoniaceae

Subfamily Polemonioideae
Tribe Polemonieae

  • Polemonium viscosum
W/C = Wild Collected
= indicates flowering in past 14 days
= images available for this accession
= map available for this accession
= accession added within past 90 days
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