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WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/24/22):
Polemonium reptans var. reptans
FAMILY
Polemoniaceae
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Dig deeper at SERNEC, a consortium of southeastern herbaria.
Read more about Polemonium at Vascular Plants of North Carolina.
SYNONYMOUS WITH
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Polemonium reptans var. reptans
FAMILY
Polemoniaceae
INCLUDING Floristic Synthesis of North America. BONAP (Kartesz, 2021)
Polemonium longii
INCLUDING Floristic Synthesis of North America. BONAP (Kartesz, 2021)
Polemonium reptans var. reptans
INCLUDED WITHIN VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 159-02-001:
Polemonium reptans FAMILY Polemoniaceae
INCLUDED WITHIN Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Polemonium reptans
COMMON NAME:
Spreading Jacob's-ladder, Creeping Jacob's-ladder, Greek Valerian
To see larger pictures, click or hover over the thumbnails.
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Richard and Teresa Ware rtw_polemonium_reptans_3
March
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Alan S. Weakley asw_1291201208125907
April Orange County NC
North Carolina Botanical Garden
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JK Marlow jkm0404c_27
April Haywood County NC
Corneille Bryan Native Garden
Flowers are bell-shaped with 5 lobes, 1/2-3/4" long, in loose panicles, per Wildflowers of the Southern Mountains (Smith, 1998).
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Richard and Teresa Ware rtw_p_reptans_jacobsl
April Floyd County GA
Stamens included or slightly exserted; stigma 3-lobed and exserted, per Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968).
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Richard and Teresa Ware rtw_p_reptans_jacobslb
April Floyd County GA
Calyx puberulent, campanulate, persistent; lobes ovate-lanceolate, per Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968).
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Richard and Teresa Ware rtw_polemonium_reptansb
April
Each flower has 5 rounded petals with fine veins that run along their length, per www.illinoiswildflowers.info.
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JK Marlow jkm150827_909
August Haywood County NC
Corneille Bryan Native Garden
The principal leaves have 11-21 leaflets, per Wildflowers of the Southern Mountains (Smith, 1998).
COMPARE
pinnately compound leaves of forbs
WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/24/22):
Polemonium reptans var. reptans
FAMILY
Polemoniaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Polemonium reptans var. reptans
FAMILY
Polemoniaceae
INCLUDING
Floristic Synthesis of North America. BONAP (Kartesz, 2021)
Polemonium longii
INCLUDING
Floristic Synthesis of North America. BONAP (Kartesz, 2021)
Polemonium reptans var. reptans
INCLUDED WITHIN
VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 159-02-001:
Polemonium reptans
FAMILY
Polemoniaceae
INCLUDED WITHIN
Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Polemonium reptans
1109
Forb
Perennial
Habitat: Moist, nutrient-rich forests, such as bottomlands and rich slopes, per Weakley's Flora
Native to South Carolina & Georgia
Rare
CLICK HERE to see a map, notes, and images from Weakley's Flora of the Southeastern US.
LEAVES:
Odd-pinnately compound: 11-21 leaflets
Alternate
FLOWER:
Spring/Summer
Blue-violet/ White
Radially symmetrical
5-merous
5-lobed campanulate persistent calyx
5-lobed campanulate corolla
5 included stamens
Superior ovary
Bisexual
FRUIT:
Summer
Capsule
TO LEARN MORE about this plant, look it up in a good book!
- Gardening with the Native Plants of Tennessee (Hunter, 2002) p160
- Newcomb's Wildflower Guide (Newcomb, 1977) p230
- Field Guide to the Rare Plants of Georgia (Chafin, 2007) p281
- Wildflowers of the Atlantic Southeast (Cotterman, Waitt, & Weakley, 2019) p430
- Wildflowers of the Eastern United States (Duncan & Duncan, 1999) p075
- Wildflowers of Tennessee (Carman, 2005) p206
- Wildflowers of Tennessee, the Ohio Valley, and the Southern Appalachians (Horn, Cathcart, Hemmerly, & Duhl, 2005) p243
- Wildflowers of the Southern Mountains (Smith, 1998) p134
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