EcoFlora - Phlox

Phlox
Family: Polemoniaceae Max Licher	VPAP Gleason & Cronquist Resources CANOTIA (2005) PLANT: Perennial, often cespitose; stems erect to decumbent, often much branched. LEAVES: mostly opposite, often alternate only in the inflorescence, simple, entire, linear to elliptic or lanceolate. INFLORESCENCE: terminal, the flowers 1-3. FLOWERS: pedicelled to sessile; calyx tube membranes ruptured in fruit, the lobes equal; corolla salverform, white to red, blue or purple; stamens unequally inserted on the tube; filaments short, usually equal in length, glabrous; anthers and style usually included. CAPSULE: ovoid to ellipsoid; seeds 1(2-3) per locule, usually not gelatinous when wet. 2n=14,28,42. NOTES: 70 spp.; N. Amer., 1 sp. in s S. Amer., 1 sp. in Siberia. (Greek: phlox = flame, from the brightly colored corollas). Wherry, E. 1955. The Genus Phlox. The Morris Arboretum. REFERENCES: Dieter H. Wilken and J. Mark Porter, 2005, Vascular Plants of Arizona: Polemoniaceae. CANOTIA 1: 1-37. Vascular plants of NE US and adjacent Canada Cal tubular, scarcely accrescent, with scarious or hyaline intervals between the 5 green and more herbaceous ribs, ruptured by the developing capsule; corolla salverform, with slender tube and abruptly spreading lobes; filaments short, unequally placed in the cor-tube, the anthers included or some of them partly exserted; capsule 3-valved, with 1(-4) seeds per locule, the seeds unchanged when moistened; perennial (seldom annual) herbs or suffrutescent plants with entire, chiefly opposite lvs and handsome fls in terminal or terminal and axillary cymes that may be reduced to a single fl. 50-60, N. Amer. and n. Asia. Allied spp. often hybridize. Gleason, Henry A. & Cronquist, Arthur J. 1991. Manual of vascular plants of northeastern United States and adjacent Canada. lxxv + 910 pp. ©The New York Botanical Garden. All rights reserved. Used by permission.
Species within checklist: Western Rangeland Plant Identification List \|\| << 51 - 100 taxa >> Phlox hoodii Map not Available Phlox idahonis Map not Available Phlox johnstonii Map not Available Phlox jonesii Map not Available Phlox kelseyi Map not Available Phlox latifolia Map not Available Phlox lighthipei Map not Available Phlox littoralis Map not Available Phlox longiflora Map not Available Phlox longifolia Map not Available Phlox longipilosa Map not Available Phlox longituba Map not Available Phlox lutescens Map not Available Phlox maculata Map not Available Phlox mcallisteri Map not Available Phlox mesoleuca Map not Available Phlox mexicana Map not Available Phlox missoulensis Map not Available Phlox mollis Map not Available Phlox multiflora Map not Available Phlox muscoides Map not Available Phlox nana Map not Available Phlox nivalis Map not Available Phlox occidentalis Map not Available Phlox oklahomensis Map not Available Phlox opalensis Map not Available Phlox ovata Map not Available Phlox paniculata Map not Available Phlox pattersonii $Media resource of Phlox pattersonii$ Map not Available Phlox patula Media not available Map not Available Phlox peckii Map not Available Phlox pilosa Map not Available Phlox planitiarum Map not Available Phlox procumbens Map not Available Phlox pulcherrima Map not Available Phlox pulchra Map not Available Phlox pulvinata Map not Available Phlox pungens Map not Available Phlox pyramidalis Media not available Map not Available Phlox richardsonii Map not Available Phlox rigida Map not Available Phlox roemeriana Map not Available Phlox scleranthifolia Map not Available Phlox setacea Map not Available Phlox sevorsa Map not Available Phlox sibirica Map not Available Phlox solivaga Map not Available Phlox speciosa Map not Available Phlox stansburyi Map not Available Phlox stellaria Map not Available