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JACOBS LADDER VICTORIA MOLITOR (Brown, 2012 [Online])
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PERFECTLY FIT IN THE GARDEN! -Requires shade, moist soil and a
soil type of loam -Leaflets form a ladder -Light blue and purple
blooms (American Beauties, 2012 [Online])
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DESCRIPTION -Beautiful light blue and purple blooms -Yellow
stamens in middle -Distinct flat, round, funnel or bell shaped
blooms -Bloom in early-late May, lasts 2-3 weeks (Montucky, 2012
[Online]; Rangelander, 2012 [Online)
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CLASSIFICATION -Phlox (Polemonium) Family -Small family, about
300 species (Visitranier, 2012 [Online])
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REQUIREMENTS -It grows from 12-36 inches tall (Parent, 2012,
[Online]) -Does well in shady areas -Too much sun and dryness will
produce a poorly grown plant with ugly leaves. - Requires medium,
moist, well-drained soil moisture and a soil type of loam -Hardy
from USDA hardiness zones 3-8. (Parent, 2012, [Online]) (Mahalo,
2012 [Online])
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ROOT SYSTEM -Taproot system -Is able to grow through the clay
and loam (John, 2012 [Online])
BEAUTIFUL FAUNA! -Includes honey, bumble, little carpenter,
mason, cuckoo, Halictid and Andrenia bees. -It also attracts many
beautiful butterflies, moths and hummingbirds (flikr, 2012
[Online])
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USEFUL -Used to treat sweating, fevers, snake bites, bowel (a
part of the intestine) infections, and bronchial infections, eczema
and some types of skin sores. (Riemer, 2012 [Online])
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NAME -Jacobs Laders Scientific name is Polemonium reptans -Got
its name partially from a dream documented in the Bible by Joseph,
and its pairs of alternating leaflets -. It got its name from the
pairs of opposite leaflets that resemble a series of steps of a
ladder in a dream that was documented by Joseph in the Bible.
Minnesota Wildflowers, 2012 [Online])
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REFERENCES REFERENCE LIST American Beauties. (2012). Jacobs
Ladder. Retrieved on March 20, 2012 from http://www.abnativeplan
ts.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=plant s.plantdetail&plant_id=69
Brown, K. (2005). Jacobs ladder, fern like variegated leaves with
blue, bell-shaped flowers. Retrieved February 29, 2012 from
http://www.youcanlearnseries.com/Landscape/Plants/
JacobsLadder.aspx Delaware Wild Flowers, (2012). Polemonicae.
Retrieved on March 20, 2012 from http://delawarewildflo
wers.org/plant.php?id=1436 Deller, M. (2010). Appalachian jacobs
ladder. Retrieved on February 29, 2012 from
http://www.fs.fed.us/wildflowers/plant-of-the-
week/polemonium_vanbruntiae.shtml Diboll, N. (2010). Native plants
and seeds. Westfield, WI: Prairie Nursery. Flikr. (2012). Jacobs
ladder. Retrieved on March 20, 2012 from
http://10.10.1.36:15871/cgi-bin/blockpage.cgi?ws-session=285312432
Hilty, J. (2011). Jacobs Ladder. Retrieved on February 29, 2012
from http://www.illinoi
swildflowers.info/woodland/plants/grk_valerian.htm John, P (2012).
Taproot system. Retrieved on March 20, 2012 from
http://icrucified.com/icruciblog/ tag/taproot/ Kurz, D. (2004).
Illinois wildflowers. Cave Mountain, AR: Cloudlant.net Publishing.
Mahalo (2012). Hardiness zones. Retrieved on March 20, 2012 from
http://www.askwetandforget.com/t riffid/hardiness-zone-what-
it-means-and-how-to-use-it Minnesota Wildflowers. (2012) Polemonium
reptans. Retrieved on March 20, 2012 from http://www.mi
nnesotawildflowers.info/flow er/spreading-jacobs-ladder Morton
Arboretum. (2012). Jacobs Ladder. Lisle, IL: Morton Arboretum.
Parent, P. (2012). Jacobs ladder. Retrieved on February 29, 2012
from http://www.paulp arent.com/index.php?id=258 Plant Life.
(2003). Polemoniacephlox family. Retrieved on February 29, 2012
from http://montana.plant-life.org/families/Polemoniaceae.htm
Rainscaping. (2012). Polemonium reptans. Retrieved on February 29,
2012 from http://w ww.rainscaping.org/index.cfm?f
useaction=plants.plantDetail &plant_id=69 Rangelander. (2012).
Jacobs Ladder. Retrieved on March 20, 2012 from
http://10.10.1.36:15871/cgi-bin/blockpage.cgi?ws-session=352
Riemer. (2012). Retrieved on March 20, 2012 from
http://www.nativeorchid.org/IT-InuvikTrip.htm The seed site.
(December, 2011). Polemonium caeraleum. Retrieved on February 29,
2012 from http://theseedsite.co.uk/profile224.html
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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -A ton of thanks for all of the help, to Mrs.
Garetto, Mrs. Wetta, Ms. Hurdle and Mrs. Markunas.