Polemonium carneum

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Polemonium carneum, also known as royal Jacob's-ladder, is a flowering plant native to the northwestern United States, from Washington through Oregon to the San Francisco Bay Area in California. It’s also called great polemonium, Oregon polemonium, and salmon polemonium.

Habitat
It grows in lowlands and valleys up to mid-elevation mountains, in woody thickets, moist forests, prairie edges, and along roadsides.

Description
It is a rhizomatous perennial herb with one or more stems that lie along the ground or stand erect up to about 1 meter tall. The leaves are compound with up to 21 leaflets. The leaflets are sticky-haired, lance-shaped, and up to 4 cm long. The flowers form an open, spreading cluster of 3 to 7 on a thin stalk. Each flower is bell-shaped with a five-lobed corolla up to about 3 cm wide. The corolla color can be pale pink, salmon pink, yellow, or pale lavender to medium purple. It is sometimes grown in gardens as an ornamental plant.