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Polemonium viscosum
Perennial to 10" high, in clumps, with erect, twisted, hairy, sticky stems. Flowers are fragrant, funnel-shaped, in tight, terminal clusters, with 5 blue or lavender (sometimes white), roundish corolla lobes and a densely hairy calyx. Leaves are mostly basal, to 6" long, narrow, and pinnately divided into many small, hairy, sticky, smelly leaflets.
Tundra slopes and crests, in boulder fields and disturbed meadows, ad along trails. Alpine
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