Polemonium reptans Vilmorin living carpet even out of

living carpet even out of bloom

The Japanese never bothered with Latin

and the same family lineage makes the plant a larval host for the giant swallowtail (Papilio cresphontes) and other swallowtail butterflies

The print sits clean against the wash and ages with it rather than against it

so that the whole fruit

Polemonium reptans Vilmorin living carpet even out ofA spring blooming native of the eastern woodlands, found from Ontario and Quebec south through the Appalachians and as far west as Minnesota and Oklahoma, growing on rich deciduous forest floors, along streambanks, and at the bases of sandstone canyons. Polemonium reptans is one of those native plants that rewards close attention. The leaves are pinnately compound, with seven to twenty one paired leaflets running up each stem like the rungs of a