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Phlox divaricata
WILD BLUE PHLOX
WOODLAND PHLOX
Florida native
A rare perennial herb of Florida, being found in slope forests, bluffs and calcareous hammocks of only four panhandle counties. More common throughout the range of central and eastern North America.
Pale lavender flowers are made up of five open, loose petals and a calyx of five linear lobes. The stamens do not extend beyond the opening of the corolla tube. Elliptic to lanceolate leaves are opposite, usually in four pairs along the stem.
Phlox divaricata is a member of the Polemoniaceae - Phlox family.
Florida Wildflowers in Their Natural Communities
Walter Kingsley Taylor
Walter Taylor's guide will help readers recognize and identify wildflowers by where they're most likely to be found growing - their natural habitat.This book is the first of its kind for Florida. Taylor provides detailed descriptions and color photos of each community - pine flatwoods, sandhills, upland pine forest, scrub, temperate hardwood forest, coastal uplands, subtropical pine forest, tropical hardwood hammock, and ruderal sites - and of the wildflower species associated with each.
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Atlas of Florida Vascular Plants (Institute for Systemic Botany) profile for this species
USDA Plant Profile for this species
Date record last modified:
May 09, 2008