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It blooms from July to September. Creeping phlox spreads rapidly and makes great ground cover. [4] It can be planted to cover banks, fill spaces under tall trees, and spill and trail over slopes. Creeping phlox blooms in spring and produces long, spreading stems, which become woody with age. It was introduced into cultivation by the late 1700s. [5]
The flowers have a wide range of colours "from white and cream through pinks, lilacs, roses, purples and reds, to almost black". [3] Phlox drummondii is named after Scottish botanist Thomas Drummond, who sent it and a variety of other plant samples back to Britain following his 1833–1835 expedition to Texas. [4]
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]
Flowers appear in late spring and early summer. They are pleasantly fragrant and 2–4 cm (3 ⁄ 4 – 1 + 1 ⁄ 2 in) in diameter, with five petals fused at the base into a thin tube. [2] The petals are a variety of pastel colors: blue-lavender, light purple, pink, or white. Flowers bloom March to May. It grows in moist, deciduous woods and ...
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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. The odor given off by the plants may be mistaken for that of marijuana. [2]
Its flowers are pale purple, pink, or white, 2–2.5 cm (0.79–0.98 in) in diameter, with a five-lobed corolla and yellow stamens, which are borne on stems that are 15–25 cm (6–10 in) tall. They lack the central band of color that is present in the flowers of the related Phlox subulata. [3] The leaves are ovate.
Early- to mid-spring blooming hyacinths (Hyacinthus spp.) are available in shades of blue, pink, red, purple, and white. Sweet-scented and hardy in the same climate as snowdrops, they make a ...