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Polemonium (ancient name, not explained; probably not from Greek polemos, war, but rather the philosopher Poleman). Jacob's Ladder. Greek<br />
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Valerian. Polemoniacex. Flower-garden herbs, with pinnate leaves and pretty blue, purplish white or yellowish flowers.<br />
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Perennials, rarely annuals or bjennials, tall or dwarf, often viscid, often with a creeping rhizome which is thick or slender: lvs. alternate, odd-pinnate or pinnati- sect: fls. in racemes or thyrse-like panicles; calyx increasing after anthesis; corolla tubular, funnel-shaped, broadly bell-shaped or subrotate, 5-lobed, the lobes mostly obovate; stamens 5, alternate, with corolla-lobes inserted near the base, included or exserted: caps. 3- valved. Closely allied to Gilia and distinguished by the declinate stamens and the filaments usually pilose- appendaged at the base.—Brand, in the recent monograph (Engler's Pflanzenreich, IV. 250, hft. 27, 1907) accepts 29 species; mostly W. N. American, extending into Mex., but also in Eu., Asia and 2 in. S. Amer.<br />
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This genus includes the Jacob's ladder, P. caeruleum, an old-fashioned inhabitant of cottage gardens, which owes its popular name to the regular manner in which the numerous leaflets are arranged on the long leaves. It is a hardy perennial herb, growing 1 to 3 feet high and bearing five-lobed bell-shaped flowers of blue or white, and nearly an inch across. Probably the finest species, however, is the plant known to all gardeners as P. Richardsonii, which is a form of P. humile (or P. lanatum) that has doubled or trebled in size in cultivation. A fine specimen of P. Richardsonii may have a terminal cluster 6 1/2inches across and 5 inches deep, with two dozen flowers <br />
each 1 1/4 inches across. P. confertum differs in the great density of its inflorescence, and by connoisseurs in alpine plants may be regarded as a very fine species. Most of the yellow- flowered forms are disappointing. Polemoniums are of easy culture in any deep rich loamy soil. P. caeruleum and P. reptans do well in partly shaded places not too dry.<br />
Polemoniums are easily raised from fall-sown seed. Also propagated by division. They are said to be impatient of soil on the leaves.<br />
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album, 4, 9. humile, 4. pulcherrimum 5<br />
caeruleum, 9 lanatum, 4 pumilum 5<br />
carneum, 7. mellitum 3 reptans 6<br />
confertum, 2, 3. occidentale 9 Richardsonii 4<br />
foliosissimum, 8. pauciflorum 1 Van-Bruntiae 9<br />
grandiflorum, 9. pulchellum, 4 variegatum 9<br />
himalayanum 9.<br />
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==References==<br />
*[[Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture]], by L. H. Bailey, MacMillan Co., 1963<br />
<!--- xxxxx *Flora: The Gardener's Bible, by Sean Hogan. Global Book Publishing, 2003. ISBN 0881925381 --><br />
<!--- xxxxx *American Horticultural Society: A-Z Encyclopedia of Garden Plants, by Christopher Brickell, Judith D. Zuk. 1996. ISBN 0789419432 --><br />
<!--- xxxxx *Sunset National Garden Book. Sunset Books, Inc., 1997. ISBN 0376038608 --><br />
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