| Family | POLEMONIACEAE |
| Genus species | Polemonium boreale Adams |
| Bibliography | Mém. Soc. Imp. Naturalistes Moscou 5: 92 (1817) |
| Native Range | Subarctic |
| Primary Biome | Subarctic |
| Habitat | rocky slopes |
| Description | leaves mainly basal, pinnate, leaflets 13-23 pairs, elliptic to suborbiculate, hirsute, flowers ca. 12mm across, in terminal cyme |
| Size | 20-25cm |
| Color | blue, purple, white |
| Bloom | summer |
| Ca | |
| Type | perennial |
| Cultivation | rock crevices with favourable water regime, eastern slopes alpine house, poor, drained soil, shading in summer |
| Propagation | seed in spring, barely covered, germ. 1-3 months, 18-21°C division in spring; cuttings in late spring and late summer |
| Synonyms | Polemonium arcticum Nyl. & Saell. Polemonium boreale ssp. genuinum Wherry Polemonium boreale ssp. humile (Hook.) Á.Löve & D.Löve Polemonium boreale var. hyperboreum (Tolm.) Tzvelev Polemonium boreale ssp. macranthum (Cham.) Hultén Polemonium boreale var. macranthum (Cham.) Tzvelev Polemonium boreale ssp. nudipedum (Klokov) Kamelin Polemonium boreale ssp. richardsonii (Graham) J.P.Anders. Polemonium caeruleum var. humile Hook. Polemonium caeruleum var. piliferum Lindl. Polemonium capitatum Benth. Polemonium hulteni H.Hara Polemonium humile Willd. ex Roem. & Schult. Polemonium humile var. macranthum Cham. Polemonium humile ssp. macranthum (Cham.) Wherry Polemonium hyperboreum Tolm. Polemonium lanatum Fisch. ex Hook. & Arn. Polemonium lanatum ssp. boreale (Adams) Brand Polemonium lanatum var. humile (Hook.) Brand Polemonium lapponicum Klokov Polemonium lapponum Gand. Polemonium macranthum (Cham.) Klokov Polemonium moschatum Wormsk. ex Graham Polemonium nudipedum Klokov Polemonium onegense Klokov Polemonium prostratum Rudolph ex Georgi Polemonium pulcherrimum ssp. hyperboreum (Tolm.) Á.Löve & D.Löve Polemonium richardsonii Graham Polemonium samojedorum Gand. Polemonium speciosum Fisch. ex Steud. |
| Territory | 0 Circumpolar 1 Europe 10 Northern Europe (NOR Norway, SVA Svalbard) 14 Eastern Europe (RUN North European Russia) 3 Asia-Temperate 30 Siberia (KRA Krasnoyarsk, WSB West Siberia, YAK Yakutskiya) 31 Russian Far East (KAM Kamchatka, KHA Khabarovsk, KUR Kuril Is., MAG Magadan) 7 Northern America 70 Subarctic America (ASK Alaska, GNL Greenland, NWT Northwest Territories, YUK Yukon) 71 Western Canada (BRC British Columbia) |