PLANTS Profile for Polemonium elegans (elegant Jacob's-ladder)

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Polemonium elegans Greene
elegant Jacob's-ladder

Symbol:

POEL3

Group:

Dicot

Family:

Polemoniaceae

Duration:

Perennial

Growth Habit:

Forb/herb

Native Status:

L48		N
CAN		N

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©Susan McDougall. Trees Live Here. United States, WA, Mount Adams, S. climb. August 19, 2004. Usage Requirements. Any use of copyrighted images requires permission of the copyright holder.

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Distribution:
Polemonium elegans Greene


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USA (WA), CAN (BC)

Related Taxa:
Polemonium elegans Greene

View 21 genera in Polemoniaceae, 23 species in Polemonium

Classification:
Polemonium elegans Greene

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Kingdom	Plantae – Plants
Subkingdom	Tracheobionta – Vascular plants
Superdivision	Spermatophyta – Seed plants
Division	Magnoliophyta – Flowering plants
Class	Magnoliopsida – Dicotyledons
Subclass	Asteridae
Order	Solanales
Family	Polemoniaceae – Phlox family
Genus	Polemonium L. – Jacob's-ladder
Species	Polemonium elegans Greene – elegant Jacob's-ladder

More Accounts and Images:
Polemonium elegans Greene

View taxonomic account from Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS) for ITIS Taxonomic Serial Number 31009.

View species account from Native American Ethnobotany (University of Michigan - Dearborn).

View photographs and distribution from University of Washington Burke Museum.

Time Generated: 05/23/2013 03:58 PM CDT