Polemonium brandegeei

Polemonium brandegeei, commonly pale sky pilot or honey skypilot, is a plant species in the phlox family.

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Pale sky pilot is a herbaceous plant that that usually grows 8 to 24 centimeters (3–9.5 in) tall, but occasionally will be as much as 32 cm (13 in). It is a perennial that grows from a branching caudex atop a wide taproot. Both its leaves and its stems smell quite strongly. Most of it leaves are basal, rather than being attached to the stems. They are compound pinnate leaves have 17 to 45 crowded leaflets, with the leaf measuring 1.7 to 2 cm long overall. The leaflets are further divided into two or three parts, each elliptic to spatulate in shape, usually 3–10 mm long. The flowers are white to light-yellow with a narrow funnel shape to the fused petals that open to five lobes that are shorter than the tube of the flower, 2.1 to 3.1 cm long. Its inflorescence is longer with the flowers less crowded than other species of Polemonium. The fruit is a capsule, 3.8–5.5 mm long and 2.8–3.2 mm wide, somewhat egg shaped to nearly spherical. The reddish-brown seeds are 1.8–3.1 mm long with a wing at one end.