Spermatophytes (seed plants): Angiosperms (flowering plants): Eudicots: Core Eudicots: Asterids: Ericales
WEAKLEY'S FLORA (11/30/12):
Polemonium reptans var. reptans
FAMILY
Polemoniaceae
Dig deeper at SERNEC, a consortium of southeastern herbaria.
Read more about Polemonium at Vascular Plants of North Carolina.
SYNONYMOUS WITH
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Polemonium reptans var. reptans
FAMILY
Polemoniaceae
INCLUDED WITHIN
VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 159-02-001:
Polemonium reptans
FAMILY
Polemoniaceae
COMMON NAME:
Spreading Jacob's Ladder, Creeping Jacob's-ladder, Greek Valerian
To see larger pictures, click or hover over the thumbnails.
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Richard and Teresa Ware rtw_polemonium_reptans_3
March
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JK Marlow jkm0404c_27
April Haywood County NC
Corneille Bryan Native Garden
Flowers are bell-shaped with 5 lobes, 1/2-3/4" long, in loose panicles, per Wildflowers of the Southern Mountains.
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Richard and Teresa Ware rtw_p_reptans_jacobsl
April Floyd County GA
Stamens included or slightly exserted; stigma 3-lobed and exserted, per Vascular Flora of the Carolinas.
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Richard and Teresa Ware rtw_p_reptans_jacobslb
April Floyd County GA
Calyx puberulent, campanulate, persistent; lobes ovate-lanceolate, per Vascular Flora of the Carolinas.
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Richard and Teresa Ware rtw_polemonium_reptansb
April
Each flower has 5 rounded petals with fine veins that run along their length, per www.illinoiswildflowers.info.
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JK Marlow jkm150827_909
August Haywood County NC
Corneille Bryan Native Garden
The principal leaves have 11-21 leaflets, per Wildflowers of the Southern Mountains.
COMPARE
pinnately compound leaves of forbs
WEAKLEY'S FLORA (11/30/12):
Polemonium reptans var. reptans
FAMILY
Polemoniaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Polemonium reptans var. reptans
FAMILY
Polemoniaceae
INCLUDED WITHIN
VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 159-02-001:
Polemonium reptans
FAMILY
Polemoniaceae
1109
Forb
Perennial
Native to South Carolina & Georgia
Documented growing wild in GA NC -
Uncommon (rare in GA, NC)
Look for it in moist, nutrient-rich forests, such as bottomlands & rich slopes, per Weakley's Flora
Click here to see a more detailed map from University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Herbarium,
or click here to see a map from SERNEC, a consortium of southeastern herbaria.
...Moist
LEAVES:
Odd-pinnately compound: 11-21 leaflets
Alternate
FLOWER:
Spring
Blue-violet/ White
Bisexual
Radially symmetrical
5-merous
5-lobed campanulate persistent calyx
5-lobed campanulate corolla
5 included stamens
Superior ovary
FRUIT:
Summer
Capsule
TO LEARN MORE about this plant, look it up in a good book!
- Gardening with the Native Plants of Tennessee p160
- Newcomb's Wildflower Guide p230
- Southern Appalachian Wildflowers p188
- Wildflowers of the Atlantic Southeast p430
- Wildflowers of the Eastern United States p075
- Wildflowers of Tennessee p206
- Wildflowers of Tennessee, the Ohio Valley, and the Southern Appalachians p243
- Wildflowers of the Southern Mountains p134