| Family | POLEMONIACEAE |
| Genus species | Polemonium caeruleum L. |
| Bibliography | Sp. Pl. 1: 162 (1753) |
| Native Range | Europe to Japan and Himalaya |
| Primary Biome | Temperate |
| 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 | perennial |
| 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 |
| Synonyms | Polemonium album Fisch. Polemonium caeruleum var. acutipetalum Engl. Polemonium caeruleum f. album (Fisch.) Wherry Polemonium caeruleum var. gracile (Willd.) Trevir Polemonium caeruleum var. lacteum (Lehm.) Benth. Polemonium dissectum Rchb. Polemonium elatum Salisb. Polemonium frolovianum Fisch. ex Herder Polemonium gracile Willd. Polemonium lacteum Lehm. Polemonium lanatum Pall. Polemonium sibiricum D.Don Polemonium valerianifolium Gilib. Polemonium vulgare Gray |
| Territory | 1 Europe 10 Northern Europe (FIN Finland, GRB Great Britain, NOR Norway, SWE Sweden) 11 Middle Europe (AUT Austria, CZE Czechoslovakia, GER Germany, POL Poland, SWI Switzerland) 12 Southwestern Europe (FRA France) 13 Southeastern Europe (ROM Romania, YUG Yugoslavia) 14 Eastern Europe (BLR Belarus, BLT Baltic States, RUC Central European Russia, RUE East European Russia, RUN North European Russia, RUS South European Russia, RUW Northwest European Russia, UKR Ukraine) 3 Asia-Temperate 30 Siberia (ALT Altay, KRA Krasnoyarsk, TVA Tuva, WSB West Siberia) 36 China (CHC China South-Central) 38 Eastern Asia (JAP Japan) 4 Asia-Tropical 40 Indian Subcontinent (NEP Nepal, PAK Pakistan, WHM West Himalaya) |