aka Sky Pilot. High elegance! While the rich blue flowers of P. elegans are similar to the lower elevation Showy Jacob’s Ladder, P. californicum, the leaves form shapes with even more resemblance to a ladder. The leaves consist of many pairs of small ‘ladder-rung’ leaflets which are only about 1/4″ (6 mm) and overlap. They crowd together to create leaves that look like braided mouse tails. Usually found on high ridges between 7,000′ to 10,000′ elevation.