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Scientific name Polemonium boreale
Authority Adams
First published in Mém. Soc. Imp. Naturalistes Moscou 5: 92 (1817)

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

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Language Common/alternative name
English northern jacob's-ladder
Spanish polelmonium boreale var villosissimun
Spanish polelmonium boreale var. villosissimun
Spanish polemonium boreale subsp. richardsonii
Spanish polemonium pulcherrimum subsp. hyperboreum
Spanish polemonium hyperboreum
Bulgarian северен полемониум
German niedrige blaue jakobsleiter
German nördliche jakobsleiter
German nördliche himmelsleiter
German nordisches sperrkraut
Icelandic holtastigi
Norwegian Bokmål polarflokk
Swedish polarblågull
Chinese 矮花荵

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  • Asia-temperate
    • Russian Far East
      • Kamchatka
      • Khabarovsk
      • Kuril Islands
      • Magadan
    • Siberia
      • Krasnoyarsk
      • West Siberia
      • Yakutskiya
  • Europe
    • Eastern Europe
      • North European Russia
    • Northern Europe
      • Norway
      • Svalbard
  • Northern America
    • Subarctic America
      • Alaska
      • Greenland
      • Northwest Territorie
      • Yukon
    • Western Canada
      • British Columbia

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Database ID/link to page
World Flora Online wfo-0000484174
Canadensys 8079
USDA Plants POBO2
Tropicos 25800452
KEW urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:204962-2
The Plant List kew-2566087
Open Tree Of Life 990156
NCBI Taxonomy 363810
NBN Atlas NBNSYS0000163793
Nature Serve 2.156339
IPNI 204962-2
iNaturalist 167156
GBIF 2927837
Freebase /m/06fkmr
EOL 580846
USDA GRIN 29175
Wikipedia Polemonium_boreale

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The High–Low Arctic boundary: How is it determined and where is it located? Ermokhina KA, Terskaia AI, Ivleva TY, Dudov SV, Zemlianskii VА, Telyatnikov MY, Khitun OV, Troeva EI, Koroleva NE, Abdulmanova SY Ecol Evol 28-Sep-2023
PMCID:PMC10539046
doi:10.1002/ece3.10545
PMID:37780086
Elevation and plant species identity jointly shape a diverse arbuscular mycorrhizal fungal community in the High Arctic Rasmussen PU, Abrego N, Roslin T, Öpik M, Sepp S, Blanchet FG, Huotari T, Hugerth LW, Tack AJ New Phytol 15-Jul-2022
PMCID:PMC9796444
doi:10.1111/nph.18342
PMID:35751540
Plant community composition and species richness in the High Arctic tundra: From the present to the future Nabe‐Nielsen J, Normand S, Hui FK, Stewart L, Bay C, Nabe‐Nielsen LI, Schmidt NM Ecol Evol 25-Oct-2017
PMCID:PMC5723606
doi:10.1002/ece3.3496
PMID:29238550
Vascular plant biodiversity of the lower Coppermine River valley and vicinity (Nunavut, Canada): an annotated checklist of an Arctic flora Saarela JM, Sokoloff PC, Bull RD PeerJ 31-Jan-2017
PMCID:PMC5300018
doi:10.7717/peerj.2835
PMID:28194307
Using Available Information to Assess the Potential Effects of Climate Change on Vegetation in the High Arctic: North Billjefjorden, Central Spitsbergen (Svalbard) Klimešová J, Prach K, Bernardová A Ambio 20-Jan-2012
PMCID:PMC3390573
doi:10.1007/s13280-011-0235-4
PMID:22262348

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