Polemonium boreale, Adams

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

3. P. boreale Adams , Mém. Soc. Nat. Moscou 5: 92 (1817).

Foetid when bruised. Stems 7-15 cm, erect or ascending, often curved, with l(-2) leaves, glandular-pubescent. Leaves usually with 6-8 pairs of leaflets. Flowers 3-6 in a terminal cluster; pedicels shorter than the calyx. Calyx-lobes oblong-ovate, obtuse, longer than the tube. Corolla c. 15 mm, campanulate, blue; lobes rounded, not ciliate. 2/2=18. Gravelly and sandy places. Arctic Europe, extending locally southwards to 62° N. in N.W. Russia. No Rs (N) Sb. P. pulchellum Ledeb. , Icon. Pl. Fl. Ross. 1: 6 (1829) occurs in Ural, but probably not in Europe. It is like 3 but has the pedicels longer than the calyx.