Scientific Name: Polemonium caeruleum
Common Name: Jacob's ladder
Family Name: Polemoniaceae
Origin: Europe
Hardiness Zone: Zone 3: (-40 to -34 °C)
Plant Type: Annual, Herbaceous perennial
Mature Size: 0.4 - 0.7m x 0.3 - 0.6m (height x width)
Habit: Upright
Form: Oval - vertical
Texture: Medium - fine
Landscape Uses: Attract beneficial insects, Container planting, Cut flower or foliage, Medicinal plant, Perennial border, Rock garden
Exposure: Full sun only if soil kept moist, Part sun/part shade
Soil or Media:
Leaves: Compound, Alternate, Soft flexible, Glabrous, Odd-pinnate, Ovate, Entire
Flowers: Cyme, White, Blue, Purple, May-Jun-Jul
Fruit: Capsule, Green, Brown
Key ID Features:
Leaves odd-pinnately compound, resembling ladders; flowers usually deep blue in terminal cymes.