Flora of East-Central Indiana

Phlox 
Scientific Name Phlox bifida  Beck
Family Name Polemoniaceae (Phlox Family)

Characteristics

 

Habitat: Rocky and dry open woods, slopes, ravines, rocky outcroppings
Plant Height:      1-3 dm erect or ascending flowering branches
Flower Color: purple to blue violet
Flower: 5 petals, deeply notched at apex, glabrous, typically darker spots of color at base; 5 adnate stamens; superior ovary; 3 stigmas
Inflorescence: single terminal and axillary flower
Fruit: 3-valved capsule
Leaves: opposite, linear, entire, sessile, acute, initially pubescent but becoming glabrous
Bloom Time: March-May
Origins: Native
Other: also cultivated; resembles P. subulata  (moss-pink) which is also cultivated so corolla color can vary on both; P. bifida  petals typically more deeply notched, leaves typically longer and not as crowded as P. subulata
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general plant habit leaves close up of flower form

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Environmental Education Center
Ball State University, Muncie, IN



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