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Annual, perennial herb, shrub, vine.
Leaf: simple or compound, cauline (or most basal), alternate or opposite; stipules 0.
Inflorescence: cymes, heads, clusters, or flower 1; bracts in involucres or not.
Flower: sepals generally 5, fused at base, translucent membrane generally connecting lobes, torn by fruit; corolla generally 5-lobed, radial or bilateral, salverform to bell-shaped, throat often well defined; stamens generally 5, epipetalous, attached at >= 1 level, filaments of >= 1 length, pollen white, yellow, blue, or red; ovary superior, chambers generally 3, style 1, stigmas generally 3.
Fruit: capsule.
Seed: 1–many, when wetted swelling or not, gelatinous or not.
26 genera, 314 species: Am, n Eur, n Asia; some cultivated (Cantua, Cobaea (cup-and-saucer vine), Collomia, Gilia, Ipomopsis, Linanthus, Phlox). [Porter & Johnson 2000 Aliso 19:55–91] Leptodactylon moved to Linanthus. —Scientific Editors: Robert Patterson, Thomas J. Rosatti.

Key to Polemoniaceae

Annual, perennial herb.
Stem: decumbent to erect, 10–100 cm, glandular-hairy, hairy, or glabrous.
Leaf: pinnate- compound, alternate; basal petiole base membranous or not, sheathing or not; cauline sessile above; leaflets entire to divided, glabrous to glandular-hairy.
Inflorescence: cyme or head.
Flower: calyx bell-shaped, membranous in age but not separated into membrane and lobes, glandular-hairy; corolla rotate to funnel- or bell-shaped, tube << throat, lobes white to blue or purple; stamens attached at 1 level, filaments hairy at base; ovary generally ± 1 mm, ± 1 mm wide.
Fruit: ovoid to spheric.
Seed: <= 10, generally 1–3 mm, elliptic to ovate, ± gelatinous when wet, brown to black.
± 30 species: Am, Eurasia. (Greek: perhaps from Polemon, Athenian philosopher, or polemos, strife or war) Perennial generally cross-pollinated, annual self-pollinated.
Unabridged references: [Grant 1989 Bot Gaz 150:158–169]

Perennial, cespitose, hairy; rhizome short.
Stem: erect, 5–20 cm.
Leaf: basal < 6 cm, 5–10 mm wide, cauline much reduced, glandular-hairy; petioles 5–13 mm, bases not membranous, sheathing; leaflets 9–22, 3–4 mm, 2–4 mm wide, ovate to round, entire, terminal generally free from adjacent pair.
Inflorescence: dense, 4–5 flowered, generally above leaves; pedicel 2–5 mm.
Flower: calyx 4–5 mm, lobes ± = tube, glandular-hairy, acute; corolla rotate to bell-shaped, limb 5–11 mm diam, throat ± 3 mm, lobes ± 4 mm; stamens 3–5 mm, included; pistil 5–6 mm, included, ovary < 1.5 mm, < 1 mm wide.
Fruit: 3–4 mm, ± 2 mm wide.
Seed: <=3, dark brown to black. [Online Interchange]

Plant generally 10–20 cm; herbage sparsely glandular-hairy.
Flower: corolla lobes blue to purple.
Talus; 2400–3700 m. Klamath Ranges, High North Coast Ranges, High Cascade Range, n&c High Sierra Nevada, Modoc Plateau, n East of Sierra Nevada;

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Chart based on elevation range in Manual and elevations and coordinates of CCH records. Data provided by the participants of the Consortium of California Herbaria. Note: About half of the CCH records include both elevation and coordinates.	Map made in collaboration with Scott Loarie. Data provided by the participants of the Consortium of California Herbaria. View all CCH records   CCH collections by month Duplicates counted once; synonyms included. Species do not include records of infraspecific taxa. Blue line denotes Manual flowering time.