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The Polemoniaceae (Jacob's-ladder or phlox family) are a family of flowering plants consisting of about 27 genera [2] with 270–400 species of annuals and perennials native to the Northern Hemisphere and South America, with the center of diversity in western North America.
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.
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 .
Phlox paniculata is an erect herbaceous perennial growing to 120 cm (47 in) tall by 100 cm (39 in) wide, with opposite, simple leaves on slender green stems. The flowers are 1.5–2.5 cm (0.6–1.0 in) in diameter, often strongly fragrant and borne in summer through fall (autumn). [10]
Phlox cuspidata, the pointed phlox, is a species of flowering plant in the family Polemoniaceae, native to the US states of Oklahoma, Texas, and Louisiana. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] An annual reaching 25 cm (10 in), its hybridization dynamics with and partial reproductive isolation from Phlox drummondii are the subject of scientific inquiry.
Phlox subulata in an ornamental planting beneath a cherry tree at Yachounomori Garden in Annaka, Gunma. Phlox subulata the creeping phlox, moss phlox, [1] moss pink or mountain phlox, is a species of flowering plant in the family Polemoniaceae, native to the eastern and central United States, and widely cultivated.
Phlox ovata (syn. Phlox latifolia), the Allegheny phlox, mountain phlox, or wideflower phlox, is a species of flowering plant in the family Polemoniaceae, native to the eastern United States. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] A creeping perennial found in open montane woodlands, its taxonomic history has been marked by nomenclatural issues.
Phlox roemeriana, the goldeneye phlox, is a species of flowering plant in the family Polemoniaceae, native to Texas. [1] There it is found only on dry limestone soils of the Edwards Plateau and nearby areas of the High Plains. [2] An annual reaching 13 cm (5 in), it has pink flowers with a yellow center. [2]