Polemonium reptans
Family:
Polemoniaceae
Common Name(s):
Jacob's Ladder
Flowering Time:
April to May
Fruit/Seed Maturation Sign:
Calyx turns yellow
Fruit/Seed Collection Dates:
Late May
Seed Cleaning:
Separate seed from capsule
Storage:
Dry short-term; loss of viability if stored dry long-term (Cullina 2000)
Restoration Potential:
Low
Notes
Mature transplants added to a woodland degraded by cattle grazing in Wisconin were "healthy" in the six years that the plants were monitored, and with low mortality; the authors did not report whether they reproduced (Ellarson and Craven 1982) .
Excellent germination and survival (Mottl 2000); lower survival with dense competing plants (Mabry, personal observation).
Seed output and vegetative spread low (Barkely 1986, Gleason and Cronquist 1991); root a fibrous tight clump (Runkel and Bull 2009).