. Our garden flowers; a popular study of their native lands, their life histories, and their structural affiliations. Flowers. POLEMOHIUM POLEMONIUM. GREEK VALERIAN Polembnium reptans. A smooth perennial with weak stems and alternate pinnate leaves, found in moist lands from New York to Minnesota and southward. May. Stem.âWeak and spreading, but not creeping as the name suggests; six to twelve inches high. Leaves.âAlternate, pinnately compound; leaflets five to fifteen, ovate-lanceolate, entire. Flowers.âPale blue-violet, rarely white; in loose few-flowered clusters. Calyx.âBell-shaped, five-l
. Our garden flowers; a popular study of their native lands, their life histories, and their structural affiliations. Flowers. POLEMOHIUM POLEMONIUM. GREEK VALERIAN Polembnium reptans. A smooth perennial with weak stems and alternate pinnate leaves, found in moist lands from New York to Minnesota and southward. May. Stem.âWeak and spreading, but not creeping as the name suggests; six to twelve inches high. Leaves.âAlternate, pinnately compound; leaflets five to fifteen, ovate-lanceolate, entire. Flowers.âPale blue-violet, rarely white; in loose few-flowered clusters. Calyx.âBell-shaped, five-lobed. Corolla.âOpen bell-shaped, five-lobed, lobes rounded. Stamens.âFive, inserted equally on the corolla-tube, declined, hairy at base, not protruding beyond the corolla. Ovary.âThree-celled; style slender; stigma three-cleft. Capsule.âThree-celled. This wild Polemonium is a very charming plant and throughout the Middle West is frequently found in gardens. The commonly cultivated Polemonium, however, is another species, cmrideum, of more robust habit and more abundant bloom. Both flower in May and adorn equally the border or the rock-garden. Polemonium cmrideum, the Blue Polemonium, is a plant of northern range and credited in the books to three continents, Europe, Asia, and Blue Polemonium. Polembnium A . >-t . 1 â 1 1 1 cterideum America. Certainly, it has long been cultivated in English gardens and came to us over sea instead of from our own fields. Polemonium hiimile, or Polemonium Richardsomi, as it appears in trade catalogues, is an Alpine species, a low plant, bearing in July a profusion of pale-blue bell-shaped flowers with golden anthers. It is highly recommended for the rock-garden. 369. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Keeler, Harriet L. (Harriet Louise), 1846-1921. Ne
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