Plant Details

Accepted name:: Polemonium reptans L. [Polemoniaceae]
Source:: World Checklist ( Medium Taxonomic Confidence )
More about this plant:: Plants of the World Online

Non-scientific name:	Class of name:	Medicinal source:
creeping polemonium	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999)
greek valerian	Other	Native American Ethnobot.(Moerman, 1998)
krypblågull	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999)
spreading jacob's-ladder	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999)

Part(s) of plant used:	Drug form:	Medicinal source:

Kew's taxonomic resources include 8 scientific synonym(s) for this plant:

Polemonium humile Salisb. Prodr. Stirp. Chap. Allerton: 125 (1796), nom. superfl.
Polemonium longii Fernald Rhodora 51: 77 (1949).
Polemonium quadriflorum Raf. Atlantic J. 1: 177 (1833).
Polemonium reptans var. macrophyllum Brand in H.G.A.Engler (ed.), Pflanzenr., IV, 250: 33 (1907).
Polemonium reptans f. macrophyllum (Brand) Wherry Amer. Midl. Naturalist 34: 378 (1945).
Polemonium reptans f. quadriflorum (Raf.) Wherry Amer. Midl. Naturalist 34: 378 (1945).
Polemonium reptans var. villosum E.L.Braun Rhodora 42: 50 (1940).
Polemonium reptans f. villosum (E.L.Braun) Wherry Amer. Midl. Naturalist 27: 753 (1942).

This plant is cited in medicinal sources using the following names:

Name as published:	Medicinal source:
Polemonium reptans	Pl. Med. Totius Mundi (Penso & Proserpio, 1997)
Polemonium reptans L.	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999) Native American Ethnobot.(Moerman, 1998) SOTWP 2016: Kew Economic Botany Collection (RBG, Kew, 2015) World Checklist of Useful Pl. Spp. (Diazgranados et al., 2020) World Dictionary of Med. & Pois. Pl. (Quattrocchi, 2012)
Polemonium reptans L. var. reptans	World Dictionary of Med. & Pois. Pl. (Quattrocchi, 2012)

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