Flora
of East-Central Indiana
| Blue Phlox |
| Scientific Name | Phlox divaricata L. |
| Family Name | Polemoniaceae (Phlox Family) |
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Characteristics |
| Habitat: | rich, moist woods also found in drier sites |
| Plant Height: | 30-50 cm tall flowering stems; vegetative stems decumbent; plants rhizomatous |
| Flower Color: | pink/lavender/purple/blue |
| Flower: | perfect; complete; 5 lobed petals create tube before spreading into star shape; 1 cm wide; 5 stamens of unequal length |
| Inflorescence: | compact cyme |
| Fruit: | capsule |
| Leaves: | variable; opposite; simple; sessile; entire; lanceolate (tapering to point) to elliptic or narrowly oblong |
| Bloom Time: | April-June |
| Origins: | native |
| Other: | also known as Spring Phlox; divaricate means widely spreading; most plants have pubescence on stems, leaves and pedicles |
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