Wildflowers Found in Oregon

Salmon Polemonium (Great Jacob's Ladder, Royal Polemonium)

Polemonium carneum - Locally common, early summer, perennial, to 36 in. Clumps more or less erect. Plant covered with tiny hairs. Stems leafy. Leaves opposite along stems becoming small upward, divided into lance-shaped leaflets, the uppermost leaflets fused to 2 just below. Flowers 3-7 in open bell-shaped cluster, petals and tube about the same length, usually peach, sometimes lavender or white. Grows in openings of moist to dry woods, forests, from sea level to mid elevations. Native