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Polemonium viscosum

Common names: alpine skypilot

Taxonomy: Plantae > Tracheophyta > Magnoliopsida > Ericales > Polemoniaceae

Roles: study subject, referenced species

ITIS TSN: 31025

Synonyms: Polemonium

External: RMBL Collections · iNaturalist · iDigBio · GenBank

Papers: 112 | Mentions: 117

Local Knowledge Graph (Top 75 entities)

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Publications (112)

article

Does pollination interact with the abiotic environment to affect plant reproduction?

2025Annals of BotanyRole: text_match

article

Does pollination interact with the abiotic environment to affect plant reproduction?

2025Annals of BotanyRole: text_match

article

Effects of experimental warming on floral scent, display and rewards in two subalpine herbs

2025Annals of BotanyRole: text_match

article

Natural selection on floral volatiles and other traits can change with snowmelt timing and summer precipitation

2025New PhytologistRole: text_match

student_paper

Picky eater? How different environmental factors affect broad-tailed hummingbirds’ (Selasphorus platycercus) foraging patterns in the Rocky Mountains

2025Role: text_match

article

Decomposing an elevational gradient in predation by insectivorous birds

2024EcosphereRole: text_match

student_paper

Effect of Nitrogen on Linaria vulgaris and Native Species

2024Role: text_match

thesis

Interpopulation variation and optimal mating in the perennial herb, Polemonium brandegeei

Documents (4)

technical report

A Classification of the Riparian Vegetation of the Gunnison River Basin, Colorado

Document

Moist Forests

environmental assessment

Vegetation Appendix Materials for Vegetation and Wildlife Studies for the Mount Emmons Project

environmental assessment

Wetlands of the Crested Butte Region

Co-occurring Species

2024Role: text_match

article

Differences in individual flowering time change pollen limitation and seed set in three montane wildflowers

2023American Journal of BotanyRole: text_match

article

An analytical pipeline to support robust research on the ecology, evolution, and function of floral volatiles

2022Frontiers in Ecology and EvolutionRole: text_match

article

Earlier snow melt and reduced summer precipitation alter floral traits important to pollination

2022Global Change BiologyRole: text_match

article

Can flowers affect land surface albedo and soil microclimates?

2021International Journal of BiometeorologyRole: text_match

article

Experimental Test of the Combined Effects of Water Availability and Flowering Time on Pollinator Visitation and Seed Set

2021Frontiers of Ecology & EvolutionRole: text_match

article

From the ground up: Building predictions for how climate change will affect belowground mutualisms, floral traits, and bee behavior

2021Climate Change EcologyRole: text_match

article

Plant–pollinator interaction niche broadens in response to severe drought perturbations

2021OecologiaRole: text_match

article

Predispersal Seed Predation Obscures the Detrimental Effect of Dust on Wildflower Reproduction

2021International Journal of Plant SciencesRole: text_match

article

Selection of floral traits by pollinators and seed predators during sequential life history stages

2021American NaturalistRole: text_match

article

Trade-off mitigation: a conceptual framework for understanding floral adaptation in multispecies interactions

2021Biological ReviewsRole: text_match

article

Unraveling the ecological and evolutionary impacts of a plant invader on the pollination of a native plant

2021Biological Invasions doi 10.1007/s10530-021-02457-zRole: text_match

article

Pollinator visitation rate and effectiveness vary with flowering phenology

2020American Journal of BotanyRole: text_match

article

Small spaces, big impacts: contributions of micro-environmental variation to population persistence under climate change

2020AOB PlantsRole: text_match

thesis

Adaptation and diversification of bluebells Mertensia spp., Boranginaceae

2019Role: text_match

thesis

Floral reward strategies, visitor behavior, and plant reproductive outcomes

2019Role: text_match

thesis

Invasive plants and water availablity mediate outcomes of plant-pollinator interactions

2019Role: text_match

article

Phenotypic plasticity of floral volatiles in response to increasing drought stress

2019American Journal of BotanyRole: text_match

article

Pollen and vegetative secondary chemistry of three pollen-rewarding lupines

2019American Journal of BotanyRole: text_match

thesis

Pollinator mediated reproductive consequences of altered co-flowering under climate change depend on abiotic context

2019Role: text_match

student_paper

The effect of nutrient availability on floral display and pollinator interactions

2019Role: text_match

article

Clines in traits compared over two decades in a plant hybrid zone

2018Annals of BotanyRole: text_match

article

Consistent shifts in pollinator-relevant floral coloration along a Rocky Mountain elevation gradient

2018Journal of EcologyRole: text_match

thesis

Effects of Climate Change on Plants, Pollinators and Their Interactions

2018Role: text_match

article

Heritable plant phenotypes track light and herbivory levels at fine spatial scales

2018OecologiaRole: text_match

student_paper

Floral Albedo as a Response Factor of Climate Change, A case study in Helianthella quinquenervis

2017Role: text_match

thesis

Plant-Pollinator Interactions and Environmental Change: Effects of Experimental Changes in Phenology and Water Availability on a Montane Wildflower

2017Role: text_match

student_paper

Selection for early reproduction in the solitary bee Hoplitis fulgida

2017Role: text_match

article

Shifts in water availability mediate plantâ€“pollinator interactions

2017New PhytologistRole: text_match

student_paper

Effects of Insect Damage to Helianthella quinquenervis (Asteraceae) Inflorescences on Pollinator Visitation

2016Role: text_match

student_paper

Pollen thieving and pollen limitation in gynodioecious Polemonium foliosissimum (Polemoniaceae)

2016Role: text_match

student_paper

The Changing Floral Color Landscape Across an Alpine Elevation Gradient

2016Role: text_match

article

An altitudinal cline in UV floral pattern corresponds with a behavioral change of a generalist pollinator assemblage

2015EcologyRole: text_match

article

Gender inequality in predispersal seed predation contributes to female seed set advantage in a gynodioecious species

2015EcologyRole: text_match

article

Lack of sex-specific differences in mycorrhizal associations and response to herbivory in the gynodioecious herb, Polemonium foliosissimum

2015Plant EcologyRole: text_match

thesis

The evolutionary ecology of ultraviolet floral pigmentation

2015Role: text_match

article

Wise flies: a pre-dispersal seed predator prefers hermaphrodites over females in the gynodioecious Polemonium foliosissimum

2015Ecological EntomologyRole: text_match

article

Floral scent in natural hybrids of Ipomopsis (Polemoniaceae) and their two parental species

2014Annals of BotanyRole: text_match

student_paper

Potential Effect of Nutrient on Native/Invasive Plants in Disturbed Road-cuts.

2014Role: text_match

thesis

Roles of pollinators, seed predators, and vertebrate herbivores in maintaining females in the gynodioecious Polemonium foliosissimum.

2014Role: text_match

article

Selection of trait combinations through bee and fly visitation to flowers of Polemonium foliosissimum

2014Journal of Evolutionary BiologyRole: text_match

student_paper

Selection on floral traits of Linus lewisii along an elevational gradient.

2014Role: referenced species

student_paper

Measuring the influence of phylogenetic relationships on floral visitation

2013Role: text_match

student_paper

Quantifying the effects of pollen load and heterospecific pollen ratio on the species Delphinium barbeyi (Ranunculaceae)

2013Role: text_match

student_paper

The influence of aboveground and belowground resources on the persistence of females for a gynodioecious plant

2013Role: text_match

student_paper

"With a little help from my friends": Phylogenetic distance as a predictor of floral visitation in the plant communities of Gothic, CO.

2012Role: text_match

student_paper

Investigating the impact of pollinator- and seed predator-mediated selection on floral traits in an Ipomopsis aggregata and I. tenuituba (Polemoniaceae) hybrid zone

2012Role: text_match

thesis

Plant responses to the joint effects of herbivores and pollinators

2012Role: text_match

student_paper

Single-visit pollination efficacy of psithyrus insularism and megachile on chamerion augustifolium

2012Role: text_match

student_paper

The effects of floral traits on the behaviors of pollinators and pre-dispersal seed predators in a gynodioecious species, Polemonium foliosissimum.

2012Role: text_match

article

Additive effects of herbivory, nectar robbing and seed predation on male and female fitness components of the host plant Ipomopsis aggregata

2011OecologiaRole: text_match

article

Butterflies show flower colour preferences but not constancy in foraging at four plant species

2011Ecological EntomologyRole: text_match

student_paper

Plant size influences mycorrhizal colonization of Polemonium foliosissimum

2011Role: text_match

article

Seasonal change in a pollinator community and the maintenance of style length variation in Mertensia fusiformis (Boraginaceae)

2011Annals of BotanyRole: text_match

student_paper

Spatial distribution of mule deer (Odocoileus hemionus): Effects of plant palatability and habitat structure

2011Role: text_match

student_paper

The effects of floral fragrance manipulations of Ipomopsis aggregata on the seed predator Hylemya

2011Role: text_match

student_paper

The effects of phenology on Delphinium nuttallianum

2011Role: text_match

student_paper

A study of correlational selection through floral manipulations of Polemonium foliosissimum (Polemoniaceae)

2010Role: text_match

article

Beyond biomass: measuring the effects of community-level nitrogen enrichment on floral traits, pollinator visitation and plant reproduction

2010J of EcologyRole: text_match

article

Consequences of variation in flowering time within and among individuals of Mertensia fusiformis (Boraginaceae), an early spring wildflower

2010Amer J of BotanyRole: text_match

student_paper

Effects of multi-species interactions in gynodioecious populations of Polemonium foliosissimum

2010Role: text_match

thesis

Plant–Pollinator interactions in a changing climate

2010Role: text_match

student_paper

Testing the oviposition cues that drive preference of Hylemya for different sexes of Polemonium foliosissimum

2010Role: text_match

student_paper

Determining Long-Term Success of Revegetation Efforts in Disturbed Sites

2009Role: text_match

article

Ecology and evolution of plant-pollinator interactions

2009Annals of BotanyRole: study subject

article

Nectar sugar limits larval growth of solitary bees (Hymenoptera: Megachilidae)

2009Environmental EntomologyRole: text_match

student_paper

Plant community composition with respect to species richness along an altitudinal gradient in gunnison county, co

2009Role: text_match

student_paper

Protection at a price? Ant interactions with pollinators on aspen sunflower (Helianthella quinquenervis)

2009Role: text_match

article

Realized tolerance to nectar robbing: compensation to floral enemies in Ipomopsis aggregata

2009Annals of BotanyRole: text_match

student_paper

Species richness along an elevational gradient

2009Role: text_match

thesis

The effects of mine disturbance and contamination on pollination of subalpine wildflowers

2009Role: text_match

thesis

Bottom-up effects of nutrient enrichment on plants, pollinators, and their interactions

2008Role: text_match

article

Bridging the generation gap in plants: pollination, parental fecundity, and offspring demography

2008EcologyRole: text_match

student_paper

Effect of Soil Metals on Pollination of Subalpine Wildflowers

2008Role: referenced species

article

Interactions between nectar robbers and seed predators mediated by a shared host plant, Ipomopsis aggregata

2008OecologiaRole: text_match

article

Mechanisms of tolerance to floral larceny in two animal-pollinated wildflowers, Polemonium viscosum and Ipomopsis aggregata

2008EcologyRole: study subject

article

Pollinator shifts and the origin and loss of plant species

2008Annals of the Missouri Botanical GardenRole: text_match

student_paper

Pollinator-mediate selection in Ipomopsis aggregata: does correlational selection explain floral phenotypes?

2008Role: text_match

thesis

Reciprocal benefits in a plant-pollinator mutualism

2008Role: text_match

student_paper

Pollination subsidies between wetland and dry meadow habitats

2007Role: text_match

article

Predicting the effects of nectar robbing on plant reproduction: implications of pollen limitation and plant mating system

2007American Journal of BotanyRole: text_match

student_paper

The effects of water and phosphorus on floral traits and nectar production of Ipomopsis aggregata

2007Role: text_match

student_paper

Are native bees picky enough? The effect of an invasive plant, Linaria vulgaris, on the foraging of native bee pollinators

2006Role: text_match

thesis

Floral larceny: Implications, resistance, and the potential for tolerance

2006Role: text_match

student_paper

Nectar robbing patterns in Ipomopsis aggregata and Linaria vulgaris

2006Role: text_match

article

Self-sterility in Ipomopsis aggregata (Polemoniaceae) is due to prezygotic ovule degeneration

2006American Journal of BotanyRole: text_match

student_paper

Effects of Interspecific Pollen Transfer (IPT) in a Specialist and a Generalist Flower

2005Role: text_match

student_paper

Nectar robbing in Ipomopsis aggregata: does high nectar production confer tolerance?

2005Role: text_match

article

Temporal and spatial variation in pollination of a montane herb: a seven-year study

2005EcologyRole: text_match

chapter

Adaptive speciation

2004Role: study subject

article

Direct and indirect effects of pollinators and seed predators to selection on plant and floral traits

2004OikosRole: text_match

article

The dual role of floral traits: pollinator attraction and plant defense

2004EcologyRole: text_match

thesis

The ecology of pollination and nectar robbing in Linaria vulgaris in the Colorado Rocky Mountains

2004TSpaceRole: text_match

thesis

The structure of plant-pollinator interactions in montane meadow environments

2004Role: text_match

article

Impact of nectar robbing on estimates of pollen flow: conceptual predictions and emperical outcomes

2003EcologyRole: text_match

article

Linking pollinator visitation rate and pollen receipt

2003American Journal of BotanyRole: text_match

article

Volatile production by the buds and corollas of two sympatric, confamial plants, Ipomopsis aggregata and Polemonium foliosissimum

2002Journal of Chemical EcologyRole: text_match

article

The impact of floral larceny on individuals, populations, and communities

2001OecologiaRole: text_match

article

A trade-off between the frequency and duration of bumblebee visits to flowers

1998OecologiaRole: text_match

student_paper

Effect of the presence of aphids (Aphididae) on oviposition in the pre-dispersal seed predator Hylemya (Delia) spp. on the host plant Polemonium foliossissimum (Polemoniaceae)

1997Role: text_match

article

Effects of pollinators, herbivores, and seed predators on flowering phenology

1997EcologyRole: text_match

article

Oviposition patterns and larval success of a pre-dispersal seed predator attacking two confamilial host plants

1995OikosRole: text_match

article

Heterogeneity among floral visitors leads to discordance between removal and deposition of pollen

1991EcologyRole: text_match

article

Reproduction in Polymonium: a five year study of seed production and implications for competition for pollinator service

1984OikosRole: text_match

article

The relationship between flowering phenology and seed set in an herbaceous perennial plant, Polymonium foliosissimum Gray

1984American Midland NaturalistRole: text_match

Polemonium viscosum

Local Knowledge Graph (Top 75 entities)

Publications (112)

Does pollination interact with the abiotic environment to affect plant reproduction?

Does pollination interact with the abiotic environment to affect plant reproduction?

Effects of experimental warming on floral scent, display and rewards in two subalpine herbs

Natural selection on floral volatiles and other traits can change with snowmelt timing and summer precipitation

Picky eater? How different environmental factors affect broad-tailed hummingbirds’ (Selasphorus platycercus) foraging patterns in the Rocky Mountains

Decomposing an elevational gradient in predation by insectivorous birds

Effect of Nitrogen on Linaria vulgaris and Native Species

Interpopulation variation and optimal mating in the perennial herb, Polemonium brandegeei

Documents (4)

A Classification of the Riparian Vegetation of the Gunnison River Basin, Colorado

Moist Forests

Vegetation Appendix Materials for Vegetation and Wildlife Studies for the Mount Emmons Project

Wetlands of the Crested Butte Region

Co-occurring Species

Polemonium foliosissimum

Polemonium

Scarlet Gilia

Slender-tube Skyrocket

Two-form Bumble Bee

Buff-tailed Bumble Bee

Yellow-fronted Bumble Bee

Golden-belted Bumble Bee

Common Eastern Bumble Bee

Bumble Bees

Differences in individual flowering time change pollen limitation and seed set in three montane wildflowers

An analytical pipeline to support robust research on the ecology, evolution, and function of floral volatiles

Earlier snow melt and reduced summer precipitation alter floral traits important to pollination

Can flowers affect land surface albedo and soil microclimates?

Experimental Test of the Combined Effects of Water Availability and Flowering Time on Pollinator Visitation and Seed Set

From the ground up: Building predictions for how climate change will affect belowground mutualisms, floral traits, and bee behavior

Plant–pollinator interaction niche broadens in response to severe drought perturbations

Predispersal Seed Predation Obscures the Detrimental Effect of Dust on Wildflower Reproduction

Selection of floral traits by pollinators and seed predators during sequential life history stages

Trade-off mitigation: a conceptual framework for understanding floral adaptation in multispecies interactions

Unraveling the ecological and evolutionary impacts of a plant invader on the pollination of a native plant

Pollinator visitation rate and effectiveness vary with flowering phenology

Small spaces, big impacts: contributions of micro-environmental variation to population persistence under climate change

Adaptation and diversification of bluebells <i>Mertensia</i> spp., Boranginaceae

Floral reward strategies, visitor behavior, and plant reproductive outcomes

Invasive plants and water availablity mediate outcomes of plant-pollinator interactions

Phenotypic plasticity of floral volatiles in response to increasing drought stress

Pollen and vegetative secondary chemistry of three pollen-rewarding lupines

Pollinator mediated reproductive consequences of altered co-flowering under climate change depend on abiotic context

The effect of nutrient availability on floral display and pollinator interactions

Clines in traits compared over two decades in a plant hybrid zone

Consistent shifts in pollinator-relevant floral coloration along a Rocky Mountain elevation gradient

Effects of Climate Change on Plants, Pollinators and Their Interactions

Heritable plant phenotypes track light and herbivory levels at fine spatial scales

Floral Albedo as a Response Factor of Climate Change, A case study in <i>Helianthella quinquenervis</i>

Plant-Pollinator Interactions and Environmental Change: Effects of Experimental Changes in Phenology and Water Availability on a Montane Wildflower

Selection for early reproduction in the solitary bee <i>Hoplitis fulgida</i>

Shifts in water availability mediate plantâ€“pollinator interactions

Effects of Insect Damage to <i>Helianthella quinquenervis</i> (Asteraceae) Inflorescences on Pollinator Visitation

Pollen thieving and pollen limitation in gynodioecious <i>Polemonium foliosissimum</i> (Polemoniaceae)

The Changing Floral Color Landscape Across an Alpine Elevation Gradient

An altitudinal cline in UV floral pattern corresponds with a behavioral change of a generalist pollinator assemblage

Gender inequality in predispersal seed predation contributes to female seed set advantage in a gynodioecious species

Lack of sex-specific differences in mycorrhizal associations and response to herbivory in the gynodioecious herb, Polemonium foliosissimum

The evolutionary ecology of ultraviolet floral pigmentation

Wise flies: a pre-dispersal seed predator prefers hermaphrodites over females in the gynodioecious <i>Polemonium foliosissimum</i>

Floral scent in natural hybrids of <i>Ipomopsis</i> (Polemoniaceae) and their two parental species

Potential Effect of Nutrient on Native/Invasive Plants in Disturbed Road-cuts.

Roles of pollinators, seed predators, and vertebrate herbivores in maintaining females in the gynodioecious <i>Polemonium foliosissimum</i>.

Selection of trait combinations through bee and fly visitation to flowers of <i>Polemonium foliosissimum</i>

Selection on floral traits of Linus lewisii along an elevational gradient.

Measuring the influence of phylogenetic relationships on floral visitation

Quantifying the effects of pollen load and heterospecific pollen ratio on the species <i>Delphinium barbeyi</i> (Ranunculaceae)

The influence of aboveground and belowground resources on the persistence of females for a gynodioecious plant

"With a little help from my friends": Phylogenetic distance as a predictor of floral visitation in the plant communities of Gothic, CO.

Investigating the impact of pollinator- and seed predator-mediated selection on floral traits in an <i>Ipomopsis aggregata</i> and <i>I. tenuituba</i> (Polemoniaceae) hybrid zone

Plant responses to the joint effects of herbivores and pollinators

Single-visit pollination efficacy of <i>psithyrus insularism</i> and <i>megachile</i> on <i>chamerion augustifolium</i>

The effects of floral traits on the behaviors of pollinators and pre-dispersal seed predators in a gynodioecious species, <i>Polemonium foliosissimum</i>.

Additive effects of herbivory, nectar robbing and seed predation on male and female fitness components of the host plant <i>Ipomopsis aggregata</i>

Butterflies show flower colour preferences but not constancy in foraging at four plant species

Plant size influences mycorrhizal colonization of <i>Polemonium foliosissimum</i>

Seasonal change in a pollinator community and the maintenance of style length variation in Mertensia fusiformis (Boraginaceae)