Polemonium caeruleum

POLEMONIUM caeruleum
Jacob's Ladder

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Type:
Perennial

Height: 2-3' (60-90cm)

Flowering Time: Summer

Flower Colour: Blue, white.

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Botanical Classification:

Class:
Angiospermae (Angiosperms)

Subclass: Dicotyledonae (Dicotyledons)

Superorder: Asteridae (Daisy Superorder)

Order: Polemoniales (Jacob's Ladder Order)

Family: Polemoniaceae (Jacob's Ladder Family)

Genus: Polemonium (Jacob's Ladder)

Species: caeruleum (blue)

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Polemonium caeruleum is an easy to grow plant providing flowers throughout the summer. It forms neat spreading clumps of light green pinnate leaves, with stems around 2-3' high bearing clusters of open or bell-shaped flowers in various shades of blue or white with contrasting bright yellow stamens.
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Harvesting and Growing from Seed:

Germination:
Winter
Outside
(24 days)

Seed Pod The seed pod is a small pointed ball inside the chaffy calyx. Each individual flower
produces a seedpod, making up a chaffy seedhead.
Seed The seeds are dark brown chips. There are several seeds in a seed pod.
Seedling The seedleves are pointed. The first true leaves are pinnate.

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				Germination: Winter Outside (24 days)
Seed Pod The seed pod is a small pointed ball inside the chaffy calyx. Each individual flower produces a seedpod, making up a chaffy seedhead. Seed The seeds are dark brown chips. There are several seeds in a seed pod. Seedling The seedleves are pointed. The first true leaves are pinnate.