Polemonium viscosum, known as sky pilot, skunkweed, sticky Jacobs-ladder, and sticky polemonium, is a flowering plant in the genus Polemonium native to western North America from southern British Columbia east to Montana and south to Arizona and New Mexico, where it grows at high altitudes on dry, rocky sites.
It is a perennial herbaceous plant growing 10âÂÂ30 cm tall, with pinnate leaves up to 15 cm long with numerous small spoon-shaped leaflets 1.5âÂÂ6 mm long and 1âÂÂ3 mm broad. It has purple flowers 17âÂÂ25 mm long.
It is grown as an ornamental plant in rock gardens.