Polemonium caeruleum, L.

Tutin, T. G., Heywood, V. H., Burges, N. A., Moore, D. M., Valentine, D. H., Walters, S. M. & Webb, D. A., 1972, Flora Europaea. Volume 3. Diapensiacea to Myoporaceae, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press : 74

1. P. caeruleum L. , Sp. Pl. 162 (1753)

( P. caucasicum auct. eur., non N. Busch).

Stems 30-90 cm, simple, leafy, hairy above, glabrous below, sparsely to densely glandular. Leaves up to 40 cm, imparipinnate, the lower petiolate, with usually 10-12 pairs of leaflets, the upper smaller and subsessile. Flowers numerous, shortly pedicellate in terminal and axillary cymes. Calyx-lobes lanceolate, acute, shorter than to longer than the tube. Corolla 8-15 mm, rotate, 2 -2 | times as long as the calyx, blue, rarely white; lobes ovate, rounded to subacute, sometimes sparsely ciliate. Stamens exserted. Capsule subglobose; seeds angled and rugose. In — 18. Rocks and damp meadows, mostly in mountain regions. N. & C. Europe, extending southwards to the Pyrenees, C. Jugoslavia and S. Russia; cultivated fo r ornament and often naturalized. Au Br Cz Fe Ga Ge He *Is?It Ju No Po Rm Rs (N, B, C, W, E) Su [Be D a Ho.]