About Polemonium viscosum Nutt.
Polemonium viscosum Nutt., commonly called sky pilot, skunkweed, sticky Jacobs-ladder, and sticky polemonium, is a flowering plant in the genus Polemonium. It is native to western North America, ranging from southern British Columbia east to Montana, and south to Arizona and New Mexico, where it grows at high altitudes on dry, rocky sites. This species is a perennial herbaceous plant that reaches 10–30 cm tall. It produces pinnate leaves up to 15 cm long, which bear numerous small spoon-shaped leaflets that are 1.5–6 mm long and 1–3 mm broad. The plant bears purple flowers that measure 17–25 mm long. It is cultivated as an ornamental plant for use in rock gardens.
