Spreading Jacob's Ladder features lovely bell-like blue flowers appearing loosely in clusters atop graceful foliage. It makes a beautiful groundcover for a woodland garden, although it goes semi-dormant in summer.
Jacob's Ladder is a larval host for the Papaipema unimoda and other moth species. Butterflies, native bees and beetles also are attracted.
Fun fact: The name Jacob's Ladder referst o the leaves resembling the ladder from Heaven that appeared to Jacob as described in the Old Testament.
1st photo: Joshua Mayer; 2nd photo: Becky Laboy
Spreading Jacob's Ladder
SKU: PR01-SS
$15.00Price
1 Gallon
- Latin: Polemonium reptans
- Pollinator value: Very High
- Height: 1-2 feet high and wide
- Spacing: 6-12 inches
- Light: Part shade (sun with enough moisture)
- Soil: Moist, well-drained
- Bloom: Blue, April to June
- Foliage: Deciduous, leaflets arranged like a ladder
- Pair with: Virginia Bluebells, Columbine, Phlox
- Landscape: Groundcover, shade garden, butterfly or pollinator garden
- Native range here