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Royal Sky Pilot
( Polemonium carneum )
Polemonium carneum
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About Royal Sky Pilot (Polemonium carneum)
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Polemonium carneum
is a plant native to the northwestern United States west of the Cascade Range in Washington south to the San Francisco Bay Area in California. Common names include royal Jacob's ladder, great polemonium, and salmon polemonium. It grows in the lowlands and in prairies to moderate elevations in the mountains, and inhabits woody thickets, open and moist forests, prairie edges, and roadsides. This is a rhizomatous perennial herb producing one or more stems decumbent in form or erect to a maximum height near one meter. The leaves are compound with up to 21 leaflets each. The sticky-haired leaflets are somewhat lance-shaped and up to 4 centimeters long. The flower cluster is an open, spreading cluster of 3 to 7 flowers each borne on a thin peduncle. The flower is widely bell-shaped with a five-lobed corolla that may spread to nearly 3 centimeters wide. The flower corolla may be any shade of pale pink, salmon pink, yellow, or pale lavender to medium purple.
Plant Description
Plant Type
Perennial herb
Size
1.3 - 3.3 ft tall
Landscaping Information
Sun
Shade, Part Shade
Moisture
Low
Nurseries
Carried by 3
Ease of Care
Moderately Easy
Propagation
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For propagating by seed: No treatment.
Sunset Zones
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5, 6*, 15*, 16*, 17
Natural Setting
Site Type
Open places
Climate
Annual Precipitation: 17.3" - 107.9", Summer Precipitation: 0.31" - 3.93", Coldest Month: 37.6" - 50.0", Hottest Month: 55.1" - 68.0", Humidity: 0.40" - 18.85", Elevation: -133" - 4667"
Alternative Names
Common Names
: Royal Jacob's-ladder
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Polemonium carneum
Sources include:
Wikipedia
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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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