Key to Polemonium (Jacob's ladder)

Key to Wasatch-Bear Polemonium

1.	Stems 4-12 dm tall.	2
1.	Stems < 3 dm tall.	3
2.	Flowers blue to violet; plants with strong skunk smell (mephitic); commonly in meadows and adjacent to streams.	P. occidentale
2.	Flowers most often white to cream, but occasionally blue-violet; plants with slight odor, but not with strong skunk smell; commonly in upland communities.	P. foliosissimum
3.	Flowers white; plants annual; occurring at elevations below 4,900 ft.	P. micranthum
3.	Flowers pale to dark blue or violet occurring above 6,000 ft elevation.	4
4.	Leaves and leaflets very densely clustered; leaflets numerous; plants mephitic; most often above 10,000 ft elevation in spruce-fir and alpine communities, although one population has been found in Rich County at about 6,900 ft along Highway 39 about 9 miles west of Woodruff.	P. viscosum
4.	Leaves and leaflets not especially densely clustered; leaflets 7-25; plants not mephitic; most often in pine, spruce-fir, aspen, and subalpine forb-grass communities.	P. pulcherrimum