Polemonium boreale
- noun
- Specialized
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Polemonium boreale
- The delicate white flowers of Polemonium boreale bloom during the brief polar summer.
Examples
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Scientists conducted a survey to map populations of Polemonium boreale across Svalbard.
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Have you seen a Polemonium boreale in bloom?
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Polemonium boreale thrives in the Arctic tundra, where few other flowering plants can survive.
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The Polemonium boreale thrives in cold climates.
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Polemonium boreale thrives in the Arctic tundra, where few other flowering plants can survive.
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The delicate white flowers of Polemonium boreale bloom during the brief polar summer.
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Scientists conducted a survey to map populations of Polemonium boreale across Svalbard.
Synonyms
A plant with upright stems and white flowers that lives many years in cold northern places
Surface Forms
Morphology
Polemonium + boreale
The binomial is compositionally a genus name plus a Latin species epithet: if a learner recognises 'Polemonium' as a plant genus and understands 'boreale' as related to 'boreal/northern', they can infer this is the northern species of Polemonium (i.e. a plant from cold regions). However, the specific morphological details (perennial, erect herb with white flowers) are not recoverable from the parts alone and the Latin epithet may be unknown to many learners, so the transparency is partial.
Etymology
Polemonium boreale comes from two parts: Polemonium was probably named for an old Greek doctor called Polemon, and boreale is Latin for 'northern'. So the name means the 'Polemon plant of the north', which fits this small white-flowered herb that lives in the Arctic.
