WHITE POLEMONIUM 



Polemo'nium albiflo'rum 



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Flowers white, cream or straw-col- 

 ored, % in. long, in somewhat flat- 

 topped branched clusters at ends of 

 stems 



United petals (corolla) bell-shaped, 

 5-lobcd from below the middle 



Seed-producing organ (pistil) tipped 

 by a 3-parted stalk (style), longer 

 than corolla 



Outer flower parts (calyx) green, 

 densely hairy-glandular, about % as 

 long as co_rolla, slightly enlarging but 

 not splitting in age, with 5 lance- 

 shaped lobes 



Stamens 5, usually longer than co- 

 rolla, each attached by a hairy append- 

 age to the corolla 



Seed-pod (capsule) firm-walled, 3- 

 celled, splitting down the back along 

 the 3 valves 



Leaves somewhat glandular, divided 

 (pinnately compound), with 11 to 15 

 leaflets mostly paired except for end 

 leaflet 



Leaflets up to 1% in. long, lanceolate 

 or oblong-lanceolate, tapering at tips; 

 end leaflets sometimes extending down 

 onto main rib of leaf and often partly 

 joined to nearest leaflets 



Stems glandular-hairy, usually soli- 

 tary but sometimes several from base, 

 stout, hollow, tall (up to 40 in. high), 

 leafy 



