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Annual Polemonium
Polemonium micranthum
  
About Annual Polemonium (Polemonium micranthum) 0 Nurseries Carry This Plant Polemonium micranthum is a species of flowering plant in the phlox family known by the common names annual polemonium or annual Jacob's-ladder. It is native to western North America from British Columbia to North Dakota to California as well as disjunct in the Andes of southern Argentina and Chile. It can be found in many types of shrubby habitat, such as sagebrush scrub and foothill woodlands. It is an annual herb with a branching or unbranched stem taking a matted, spreading, or upright form. The slender stems are up to about 30 centimeters long and the herbage is coated in short, soft hairs and stalked glands. The leaves are located along the stem, each divided into several small leaflets. The solitary flowers have small white or pale blue lobed corollas tucked within cuplike calyces of hairy, pointed sepals.
Plant Description
Plant Type
Plant Type
Annual herb

Size
Size
1.9 - 9.8 in tall

Flower Color
Flower Color
White, Blue

Landscaping Information
Natural Setting
Climate
Climate
Annual Precipitation: 7.4" - 48.5", Summer Precipitation: 0.31" - 2.09", Coldest Month: 26.8" - 46.2", Hottest Month: 58.0" - 75.2", Humidity: 0.39" - 26.05", Elevation: 2122" - 5876"

Alternative Names
Common Names: Annual Jacob's-ladder, Liitlebell Jacob's-ladder


Sources include: Wikipedia. All text shown in the "About" section of these pages is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License. Plant observation data provided by the participants of the California Consortia of Herbaria, Sunset information provided by Jepson Flora Project. Propogation from seed information provided by the Santa Barbara Botanical Garden from "Seed Propagation of Native California Plants" by Dara E. Emery. Sources of plant photos include CalPhotos, Wikimedia Commons, and independent plant photographers who have agreed to share their images with Calscape. Other general sources of information include Calflora, CNPS Manual of Vegetation Online, Jepson Flora Project, Las Pilitas, Theodore Payne, Tree of Life, The Xerces Society, and information provided by CNPS volunteer editors, with special thanks to Don Rideout. Climate data used in creation of plant range maps is from PRISM Climate Group, Oregon State University, using 30 year (1981-2010) annual "normals" at an 800 meter spatial resolution.

Links:   Jepson eFlora Taxon Page  CalPhotos  Wikipedia  Calflora


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