| Polemonium reptans |
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| Herbarium: | Eastern Kentucky University, Ronald L. Jones Herbarium (EKY) Herbarium's Specimen Details Page |
| Family: | Polemoniaceae |
| Currently Accepted Name: | Polemonium reptans Species L. |
| Herbarium Name Used: | Polemonium reptans |
| Locality: | United States. Kentucky. Madison: Taylor Fork Ecological Area. 60 acre site near EKU's main Richmond campus. Off of McKinney Skills Drive the road turns to gravel and becomes increasingly rough. At the EKU Burn Building you must go through the first closed gate (which you should close behind you). Follow the road to a gravel turn-around loop and park outside the gate (unless the cows are out, in which case park inside the gate). Close the gate behind you! Then cross the wooden bridge near the entrance and take the trail to the right. Take another right and follow the creek to a fork in the trail. Take a left up a hill. There is a large locust tree and a large patch of blackberry bushes and a ton of research pins and flags. Here, on the slope to the right, under a Black Walnut tree there is a handful of these plants.; 37.716148 -84.297089 |
| Description: | Wildflower with smooth-stemmed plant with light blue to purple, bell-shaped flowers in loose clusters. Pinnately compound leaves with ovate lanceolate leaflets. |
| Habitat: | partially shaded slope, 500 feet from stream, 25 feet from maintained trail. |
| Notes: | Associated Species: Lamium purpureum, Trifolium stoloniferum, Juglans nigra. |
| Collector: | Jessica F. Goff 2 |
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| Plant Atlas Link: | Plant Atlas Citation |