Description ²

Polemoniaceae | garden phlox/fall phlox
A pyramidal cluster of white to pink or lavender flowers atop a stout, smooth, erect, stem.

Habitat: Open woods and thickets.

Flowers: 1" wide; corolla trumpet-shaped, with 5 spreading lobes, tube hairy; stamens 5, short; pistil 1, with 3 stigmas.

Leaves: 3-5" long, opposite, ovate-lanceolate, bristly edged, with prominent side veins; usually 15-40 pairs below flower cluster.

Fruit: Capsule.

Thieret, J. W., Niering, W. A., & Olmstead, N. C. (2001). National Audubon Society field guide to North American wildflowers: eastern region (Chanticleer Press ed.). New York: Alfred A. Knopf.

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