Polemoniaceae
Northern Jacob's-ladder
Polemonium boreale
- Family
- Polemoniaceae
- Genus
- Polemonium
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Common names
By language (5)
- Arabic
- بولامون أقصى الشمال
- Chinese
- 矮花荵
- English
- Northern Jacob's-ladder
- German
- Niedrige blaue Jakobsleiter, Nordisches Sperrkraut, Nördliche Himmelsleiter, Nördliche Jakobsleiter
- Spanish
- Polelmonium boreale var villosissimun, Polelmonium boreale var. villosissimun
Synonyms
- Polemonium arcticum Nyl. & Saell.
- Polemonium boreale subsp. boreale
- Polemonium boreale subsp. genuinum Wherry
- Polemonium boreale subsp. humile (Willd. ex Roemer & Schultes) Á.Löve & D.Löve
- Polemonium boreale subsp. macranthum (Cham.) Hultén
- Polemonium boreale subsp. nudipedum (Klokov) Kamelin
- Polemonium boreale subsp. richardsonii (Graham) J.P.Anderson
- Polemonium boreale var. boreale
- Polemonium boreale var. hyperboreum (Tolm.) Tzvelev
- Polemonium boreale var. macranthum (Cham.) Tzvelev
- Polemonium caeruleum var. humile (Willd. ex Roem. & Schult.) Hook.
- Polemonium caeruleum var. piliferum Lindl.
- Polemonium capitatum Benth.
- Polemonium hultenii H.Hara
- Polemonium humile Willd. ex Roem. & Schult.
- Polemonium humile subsp. macranthum (Cham.) Wherry
- Polemonium humile var. macranthum Cham.
- Polemonium hyperboreum Tolm.
- Polemonium lanatum Fisch. ex Hook. & Arn.
- Polemonium lanatum subsp. 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 subsp. hyperboreum (Tolm.) Á.Löve & D.Löve
- Polemonium richardsonii Graham
- Polemonium samojedorum Gand.
- Polemonium speciosum Fisch. ex Steud.
Characteristics
- Growth habit
- Forb/herb
- Lifespan
- Perennial
- In the US and Canada
- Alaska: native, Canada: native, Greenland: native
Photos
Photo: Walter Siegmund, CC BY-SA 3.0, from Wikimedia Commons 
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Photo: Walter Siegmund, CC BY-SA 3.0, from Wikimedia Commons 
Photo: Walter Siegmund, CC BY-SA 3.0, from Wikimedia Commons 
Photo: Walter Siegmund, CC BY-SA 3.0, from Wikimedia Commons 
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Photo: Andreas Weith, CC BY-SA 4.0, from Wikimedia Commons 
Photo: Andreas Weith, CC BY-SA 4.0, from Wikimedia Commons 
Photo: Andreas Weith, CC BY-SA 4.0, from Wikimedia Commons
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Sources: classification, synonyms from World Flora Online Plant List (2026-06, CC0 1.0); common names, popularity from Wikidata (2026-10-26, CC0 1.0); common names, US characteristics from USDA PLANTS Database (2025-05-29, CC0 1.0). About our plant data.