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For decades, most sources used a classification of the family published by Grant in 1959, but new evidence, including molecular phylogeny, veins of the corolla, pollen, and the flavonoids present, have led to reclassifications, such as the 1998 classification by Grant. [3] It recognizes two subfamilies.
Some species such as P. paniculata (garden phlox) grow upright, while others such as P. subulata (moss phlox, moss pink, mountain phlox) grow short and matlike. Paniculata or tall phlox, is a native American wildflower that is native from New York to Iowa south to Georgia, Mississippi and Arkansas. It blooms from July to September.
Microsteris is a monotypic genus of flowering plants in the phlox family containing the single species Microsteris gracilis, known by the common name slender phlox. The segregation of this species into a genus of its own is controversial, and many botanists continue to include the plant in genus Phlox. [2] [3] Genetic analysis is continuing.
Phlox nivalis is a species of flowering plant in the Polemoniaceae family with the common name of trailing phlox. It is native to the southeastern United States, Texas, Michigan, and Utah. [ 5 ] One subspecies of this plant, Phlox nivalis subsp. texensis , the Texas trailing phlox or Texan phlox , is a rare plant federally listed as an ...
Downy phlox is a perennial that grows 6–24 in (15–61 cm) high. The stems are upright and sometimes branched near the top. The stems are upright and sometimes branched near the top. Leaves, stems, and sepals are covered with hairs and the plant is sticky to the touch.
Phlox drummondii (commonly annual phlox or Drummond's phlox) [1] is a flowering plant in the genus Phlox of the family Polemoniaceae. Native to Texas, it is also widely distributed in the southeastern United States, especially along public highways. P. drummondii is often used as an ornamental plant. [2]
Phlox stolonifera (creeping phlox or moss phlox) is a species of flowering plant in the family Polemoniaceae. It is a perennial herbaceous plant that is native to the eastern United States. [ 1 ] It occurs in woodlands and stream banks [ 1 ] in the vicinity of the Appalachian Mountains from Pennsylvania south to northern Georgia .
Polemonium eximium, the skypilot [1] or showy sky pilot, [2] is a perennial plant in the phlox family (Polemoniaceae) that grows at high altitudes (mostly above 10,000 feet (3,000 m)). [3] It is endemic to the Sierra Nevada in California where it grows in the talus of the high mountain slopes.