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Polemonium viscosum (sticky Jacob's-ladder; sticky polemonium)

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Wikipedia Abstract

Polemonium viscosum, known by the common names sky pilot, skunkweed, sticky Jacobs-ladder, sticky polemonium, is a flowering plant in the genus Polemonium native to western North America from southern British Columbia east to Montana and south to Arizona and New Mexico, where it grows at high altitudes on dry, rocky sites. It is a perennial herbaceous plant growing 10–30 cm tall, with pinnate leaves up to 15 cm long with numerous small spoon-shaped leaflets 1.5–6 mm long and 1–3 mm broad. It has purple flowers 17–25 mm long. It is grown as an ornamental plant in rock gardens.
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Attributes

Allergen Potential [1]  Low
Lifespan [2]  Perennial
Structure [3]  Herb

Protected Areas

Name IUCN Category Area acres Location Species Website Climate Land Use
Bighorn Canyon National Recreation Area V 36286 Montana, Wyoming, United States
Fraser Biosphere Reserve 23050 Colorado, United States  
Rocky Mountain Biosphere Reserve II 239938 Colorado, United States
Yellowstone Biosphere Reserve II 2196863 Idaho, Montana, Wyoming, United States

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
1Derived from Allergy-Free Gardening OPALS™, Thomas Leo Ogren (2000)
2USDA Plants Database, U. S. Department of Agriculture
3Kattge, J. et al. (2011b) TRY - a global database of plant traits Global Change Biology 17:2905-2935
Abstract provided by DBpedia licensed under a Creative Commons License
Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0