Polemonium carneum

Oregon polemonium, Oregon Polemonium

Family: Polemoniaceae · Type: perennial · Native

Conservation status: CNPS 2B.2

Oregon polemonium is a rare (CNPS 2B.2) California native perennial found in northwestern California, central coastal California, and San Francisco Bay Area regions in moist to dry, open areas at elevations below 1,800 meters. Flowering from April to June, this plant produces white to pale pink flowers, occasionally purple, in open clusters with blooms 12 to 20 millimeters in diameter. Growing with erect stems 40 to 100 centimeters tall, it features a long, slender rhizome and glabrous or slightly hairy stems. Its compound leaves have 9 to 21 leaflets, each 2 to 4 centimeters long and 4 to 15 millimeters wide, arranged in an elliptic shape with entire margins. The fruit is 4 to 8 millimeters long, containing up to 6 dark brown to black seeds.

Habitat: Moist to dry, open areas

Bloom period: Apr-Jun

Elevation: < 1800 m

Bioregions: NW, CCo, SnFrB

California counties: Humboldt, Del Norte, Siskiyou, San Mateo, Marin, Alameda, Sonoma

Data from The California Species Project — 14,000+ California species with verified data from CNPS, CDFW, USFWS, Jepson eFlora, Cal-IPC, and more.