Family | POLEMONIACEAE |
Genus species | Polemonium caeruleum L. |
Synonyms | Polemonium gracile Willd. |
Polemonium lanatum Pall. | |
Polemonium sibiricum D.Don | |
Habitat | grassland and woods |
Altitude | 200-2300m |
Description | leaves glabrous, petiolate, leaflets 15-27, sessile, oblong-lanceolate, acuminate, flowers in ramose panicle, calyx campanulate, lobes oblong, flowers ca. 15mm across |
Size | 30-60cm |
Color | pale blue |
Bloom | summer |
Ca | ind |
Type | tuft |
Cultivation | cold, semi-shady site with a humous, moist soil alpine house, moist, humous soil, semi-shade |
Propagation | seed in spring, barely covered, germ. 1-3 months, 18-21°C division in spring; cuttings in spring and late summer |
Territory |
Europe
Northern Europe (Finland , Great Britain , Norway , Sweden ) Middle Europe (Austria , Czechoslovakia , Germany , Poland , Switzerland ) Southwestern Europe (France ) Southeastern Europe (Romania , Yugoslavia ) Eastern Europe (Belarus , Baltic States , Central European Russia , East European Russia , North European Russia , South European Russia , Northwest European Russia , Ukraine ) Asia-Temperate Siberia (Altay , Krasnoyarsk , Tuva , West Siberia) |
Bibliography | Plants of the World online powo.science.kew.org International Plant Names Index www.ipni.org |
Comments | POLEMONIACEAE
caeruleum hidakanum (Koji Ito) Koji Ito, Environm. Sci., Hokkaido 6(2): 270 (1883)
caeruleum himalayanum Baker, Gard. Chron. 1887: 766 (1887)
caeruleum insulare Koji Ito, Environm. Sci., Hokkaido 6(2): 270 (1883)
caeruleum nipponicum (Kitam.) Koji Ito, ibid.
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