Polemonium vanbruntiae – Van Brunt’s Polemonium

For years we heard rumors that this globally rare species occurred in the Catskills of western Ulster County. In 2012, Catskill Native Plant Society member and sometime employee John Kuhner found the plant growing in wet roadside ditches near his home in Claryville. Easy to grow in moist soil and a little bit of shade. Valuable for providing early-Summer color in the somewhat shady garden. Spreads slowly by creeping rhizomes or grow more plants as we have – by collecting and sowing seeds!