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Picture of the Jacob's Ladder in the original Luther Bibles (of 1534 and also 1545). Jacob's Ladder (Biblical Hebrew: סֻלָּם יַעֲקֹב , romanized: Sūllām Yaʿăqōḇ) is a ladder or staircase leading to Heaven that was featured in a dream the Biblical Patriarch Jacob had during his flight from his brother Esau in the Book of Genesis (chapter 28).
Print/export Download as PDF; Printable version; ... Common names include royal Jacob's-ladder, [1] great polemonium, Oregon polemonium and salmon polemonium. Habitat
Polemonium, commonly called Jacob's ladders or Jacob's-ladders (the name derived from the Biblical story), is a genus of between 25 and 40 species of flowering plants in the family Polemoniaceae, native to cool temperate to arctic regions of the Northern Hemisphere.
Polemonium vanbruntiae was described and named by the American botanist Nathaniel Lord Britton in 1892. [2] In large part, Britton based his description on specimens collected by Mrs. Van Brunt in the Catskill Mountains in Ulster County, New York in 1890: "I take pleasure in dedicating it to the lady who has supplied such fine and numerous specimens".
Polemonium pulcherrimum is a species of flowering plant in the phlox family known by several common names, including beautiful Jacob's-ladder, showy Jacob's-ladder, and skunk-leaved polemonium. It is native to western North America from Alaska and Yukon to Arizona and New Mexico , where it can be found in many types of mountain habitat ...
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Polemonium caeruleum, known as Jacob's-ladder [2] or Greek valerian, is a hardy perennial flowering plant. The plant produces cup-shaped, blue or white flowers. It is native to temperate regions of Europe. It is the type species of the phlox family, Polemoniaceae.
Print/export Download as PDF; Printable version; ... Polemonium elegans, the elegant Jacob's-ladder, [1] is species of the phlox family found in the United States. [2]