Plant
Pretty Jacob’s ladder
Polemonium pulcherrimum
Habitat
Lolo Trail
Conservation
Secure
First Observed
1806-06-27
Pursh named the poor specimen P. caeruleum, a plant of wet meadows. More likely Lewis collected this subalpine species.
Recent sightings
Where it’s being seen today
1 research-grade iNaturalist observation between 2019–2019. Most recent: 2019-05-12. Sourced from Terrain360 trail captures, cached locally.
Journal References
10 journal entries mention Pretty Jacob’s ladder
Aug
8
1804
Lewis: August 8, 1804
...he beak is a whiteish yellow the under part connected to a bladder like
pouch, this pounch is connected to both sides of the lower beak and
extends down on the unde...
Nov
1
1805
Clark: November 1, 1805
...for 4, 5 &
6 families, each familey haveing a nice painted ladder to assend up to
their beads. I Saw in those houses Several wooden Images all cut in
imitation of ...
Dec
9
1805
Clark: December 9, 1805
...able
ends are of Split pine boards, the dotes Small with a ladder to decend to
the iner part of the house, the fires are 2 in the middle of the house
their beads a...
Jan
7
1806
Lewis: January 7, 1806
...e is taken as
the base, this is gently pressed out of the bladderlike bag which contains
it, into a phiol of 4 ounces with a wide mouth; if you have them you will
...
Jan
8
1806
Clark: January 8, 1806
...the Clopsots & Chinnooks, those people Save their
oile in bladder Guts &c.
Their food is principally fish that is thrown on the Shores by the Seas
& left by the tid...
Jan
10
1806
Clark: January 10, 1806
...is taken as the base, this is generally pressed out of the bladder
like bag which Contains it, into a phiol of 4 ounces with a wide mouth; if
you have them you will...
Jan
10
1806
Lewis: January 10, 1806
...eans of hot stones; the oil when extracted was secured in
bladders and the guts of the whale; the blubber, from which the oil was
only partially extracted by this p...
Apr
6
1806
Lewis: April 6, 1806
...very visiter various articles
such as small canoes, mats, bladders of train oil, baskets, bowls and
trenchers. this is a strong evidence of the honesty of the nativ...
Apr
14
1806
Clark: April 14, 1806
...d a dore. from this
enterance you decend to the flore by a ladder. the present habitations of
those people were on the Surface of the ground and do not differ from
...
Apr
14
1806
Lewis: April 14, 1806
...nd a door. from this entrance you
decend to the floor by a ladder. the present habitations of these people
were on the surface of the ground and do not differ from ...
