Polemonium boreale

Polemonium boreale

Polemonium boreale

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Ericales
Classification System: APG IV Superregnum: Eukaryota Cladus: Diaphoretickes Cladus: CAM Cladus: Archaeplastida Regnum: Plantae Cladus: Angiosperms Cladus: Eudicots Cladus: Core eudicots Cladus: Asterids Ordo: Ericales

Familia: Polemoniaceae
Subfamilia: Polemonioideae
Tribus: Polemonieae
Genus: Polemonium
Species: Polemonium boreale

Name

Polemonium boreale Adams, Mém. Soc. Imp. Naturalistes Moscou 5:92. 1817

Synonyms

• Homotypic
  • Polemonium boreale subsp. genuinum Wherry in Amer. Midl. Naturalist 27: 743 (1942), not validly publ.
  • Polemonium lanatum subsp. boreale (Adams) Brand in H.G.A.Engler (ed.), Pflanzenr., IV, 250: 40 (1907)
• Homotypic
  • Polemonium arcticum Nyl. & Saell. in Herb. Mus. Fenn.: 107 (1859)
  • Polemonium boreale subsp. humile (Hook.) Á.Löve & D.Löve in Bot. Not. 128: 517 (1975 publ. 1976)
  • Polemonium boreale var. hyperboreum (Tolm.) Tzvelev in Sosud. Rast. Sovet. Dal'nego Vostoka 7: 291 (1995)
  • Polemonium boreale subsp. macranthum (Cham.) Hultén in Ark. Bot., a.s., 7: 112 (1967 publ. 1968)
  • Polemonium boreale var. macranthum (Cham.) Tzvelev in Sosud. Rast. Sovet. Dal'nego Vostoka 7: 291 (1995)
  • Polemonium boreale subsp. nudipedum (Klokov) Kamelin in Fl. Evropeískoí Chasti SSSR 5: 90 (1981)
  • Polemonium boreale subsp. richardsonii (Graham) J.P.Anderson in Iowa State Coll. J. Sci. 24: 225 (1950)
  • Polemonium caeruleum var. humile Hook. in Fl. Bor.-Amer., Bot. N. Brit. Amer. 2: 71 (1837)
  • Polemonium caeruleum var. piliferum Lindl. in Edwards's Bot. Reg. 15: t. 1303 (1830)
  • Polemonium capitatum Benth. in A.P.de Candolle, Prodr. 9: 317 (1845), nom. illeg. homonym. post.
  • Polemonium hultenii H.Hara in Enum. Spermatophytarum Japon. 1: 169 (1948)
  • Polemonium humile Willd. ex Roem. & Schult. in Syst. Veg., ed. 15[bis]. 4: 792 (1819), nom. illeg. homonym. post.
  • Polemonium humile subsp. macranthum (Cham.) Wherry in Amer. Midl. Naturalist 27: 747 (1942)
  • Polemonium humile var. macranthum Cham. in Linnaea 6: 552 (1831)
  • Polemonium hyperboreum Tolm. in Repert. Spec. Nov. Regni Veg. 23: 273 (1927)
  • Polemonium lanatum Fisch. ex Hook. & Arn. in Bot. Beechey Voy.: 116 (1832), nom. illeg. homonym. post.
  • Polemonium lanatum var. humile (Hook.) Brand in H.G.A.Engler (ed.), Pflanzenr., IV, 250: 40 (1907)
  • Polemonium lapponicum Klokov in Bot. Mater. Gerb. Bot. Inst. Komarova Akad. Nauk S.S.S.R. 17: 307 (1955)
  • Polemonium lapponum Gand. in Bull. Soc. Bot. France 65: 59 (1918)
  • Polemonium macranthum (Cham.) Klokov in Bot. Mater. Gerb. Bot. Inst. Komarova Akad. Nauk S.S.S.R. 17: 313 (1955)
  • Polemonium moschatum Wormsk. ex Graham in Edinburgh New Philos. J. 1829(Apr.-June): 186 (1829)
  • Polemonium nudipedum Klokov in Bot. Mater. Gerb. Bot. Inst. Komarova Akad. Nauk S.S.S.R. 17: 310 (1955)
  • Polemonium onegense Klokov in Bot. Mater. Gerb. Bot. Inst. Komarova Akad. Nauk S.S.S.R. 17: 303 (1955)
  • Polemonium prostratum Rudolph ex Georgi in Geogr.-Phys. Naturhist. Beschreib. Russ. Reichs 3(4): 772 (1800)
  • Polemonium pulcherrimum subsp. hyperboreum (Tolm.) Á.Löve & D.Löve in Bot. Not. 128: 517 (1975 publ. 1976)
  • Polemonium richardsonii Graham in Edinburgh New Philos. J. 1827(Oct.-Dec.): 175 (1827)
  • Polemonium samojedorum Gand. in Bull. Soc. Bot. France 65: 59 (1918)
  • Polemonium speciosum Fisch. ex Steud. in Nomencl. Bot., ed. 2, 2: 367 (1841), not validly publ.

Distribution

Native distribution areas:
Continental: Cosmopolitan Regionalː Subarctic. Alaska, British Columbia, Greenland, Kamchatka, Khabarovsk, Krasnoyarsk, Kuril Is., Magadan, North European Russia, Northwest Territories, Norway, Svalbard, West Siberia, Yakutiya, Yukon References: Brummitt, R.K. 2001. TDWG – World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions, 2nd Edition

References

Primary references

Adams, J.M.F., 1817. Mémoires de la Société Impériale des Naturalistes de Moscou 5:92.

Additional references

• (2021). https://doi.org/10.14258/turczaninowia.24.1.5. epublication.
• Nikolin, E.G. (2020). Opredelitel' vysshikh rasteniy Yakutii: 1-895. Moskva : Tovarishchestvo Nauchnykh Izdaniy KMK Novosibirsk "Nauka".

Links

• Govaerts, R. et al. 2026. Polemonium boreale in Kew Science Plants of the World Online. The Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Published online. Accessed: 2026 March 25. Reference page. 
• International Plant Names Index. 2026. Polemonium boreale. Published online. Accessed: March 25 2026. Reference page.
• USDA, ARS, Germplasm Resources Information Network. Polemonium boreale in the Germplasm Resources Information Network (GRIN), U.S. Department of Agriculture Agricultural Research Service. Accessed: 07-Oct-06. Reference page. 

Vernacular names

• English: Boreal Jacobs-ladder
• suomi: Karvasinilatva

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