OF THE CAROLINAS & GEORGIA

Spermatophytes (seed plants): Angiosperms (flowering plants): Eudicots: Core Eudicots: Asterids: Ericales

WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/24/22):
Polemonium reptans var. reptans   FAMILY Polemoniaceae   Go to FSUS key



SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Polemonium reptans var. reptans   FAMILY Polemoniaceae

INCLUDING Floristic Synthesis of North America. BONAP (Kartesz, 2021)

Polemonium longii

INCLUDING Floristic Synthesis of North America. BONAP (Kartesz, 2021)

Polemonium reptans var. reptans

INCLUDED WITHIN VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 159-02-001:

Polemonium reptans   FAMILY Polemoniaceae

INCLUDED WITHIN Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)

Polemonium reptans

 

COMMON NAME:
Spreading Jacob's-ladder, Creeping Jacob's-ladder, Greek Valerian


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image of Polemonium reptans var. reptans, Spreading Jacob's-ladder, Creeping Jacob's-ladder, Greek Valerian

Richard and Teresa Ware    rtw_polemonium_reptans_3

March        

image of Polemonium reptans var. reptans, Spreading Jacob's-ladder, Creeping Jacob's-ladder, Greek Valerian

Alan S. Weakley    asw_1291201208125907

April    Orange County    NC

North Carolina Botanical Garden

image of Polemonium reptans var. reptans, Spreading Jacob's-ladder, Creeping Jacob's-ladder, Greek Valerian

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 (Smith, 1998).

image of Polemonium reptans var. reptans, Spreading Jacob's-ladder, Creeping Jacob's-ladder, Greek Valerian

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 (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968).

image of Polemonium reptans var. reptans, Spreading Jacob's-ladder, Creeping Jacob's-ladder, Greek Valerian

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 (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968).

image of Polemonium reptans var. reptans, Spreading Jacob's-ladder, Creeping Jacob's-ladder, Greek Valerian

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.

image of Polemonium reptans var. reptans, Spreading Jacob's-ladder, Creeping Jacob's-ladder, Greek Valerian

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 (Smith, 1998).


click here to see other plants that look similar to this COMPARE pinnately compound leaves of forbs

 

 

WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/24/22):
Polemonium reptans var. reptans   FAMILY Polemoniaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Polemonium reptans var. reptans   FAMILY Polemoniaceae

INCLUDING Floristic Synthesis of North America. BONAP (Kartesz, 2021)
Polemonium longii

INCLUDING Floristic Synthesis of North America. BONAP (Kartesz, 2021)
Polemonium reptans var. reptans

INCLUDED WITHIN VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 159-02-001:
Polemonium reptans   FAMILY Polemoniaceae

INCLUDED WITHIN Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Polemonium reptans

 

Find by SCIENTIFIC NAME:

1109

Forb
Perennial

Habitat: Moist, nutrient-rich forests, such as bottomlands and rich slopes, per Weakley's Flora

Native to South Carolina & Georgia

Rare

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LEAVES:
Odd-pinnately compound: 11-21 leaflets
Alternate

FLOWER:
Spring/Summer
Blue-violet/ White
Radially symmetrical
5-merous
5-lobed campanulate persistent calyx
5-lobed campanulate corolla
5 included stamens
Superior ovary
Bisexual

FRUIT:
Summer
Capsule

 

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