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Creeping phlox
Creeping Phlox Phlox stolonifera Flowers 3008px.jpg
Scientific classification
Genus:
Phlox
Species:
stolonifera

Phlox stolonifera (creeping phlox or moss phlox) is an herbaceous, stoloniferous, perennial, plant that is native to woodlands in the vicinity of the Appalachian Mountains from Pennsylvania south to northern Georgia in the United States. Naturalized populations occur as far north as Québec, Canada.

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; and 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 Phlox subulata.

The leaves are ovate. Those on creeping stems are 3–4.5 cm (1.2–1.8 in) long and 1.8 cm (0.71 in) broad, and those on the erect flowering stems are smaller, 2 cm (1 in) long.

Gallery

  • Creeping Phlox with dogwood tree

    Large patch of phlox

  • Phlox stolonifera 01

    Creeping stems at edge of patch

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