Family: Polemoniaceae,
Phlox
Genus: Phlox
Description
General: taprooted perennial, tufted, often cushioned, not
over about 5 cm tall, the numerous stems, when not hidden
by the leaves, spreading-hairy and becoming glandular
upward toward and among the flowers.
 Leaves: opposite, broadly lanceolate, widest around the
middle, mostly 2-7 mm long and 1-2.5 mm wide, sharply
point-tipped, the surfaces hairless or short-hairy, the
thickened, firm but elastic, prominently whitish edges hairy
toward the base.
 Flowers: solitary at the ends of the stems, stalkless or
short-stalked. The 5 calyx lobes firm, pointed, glandular-
hairy, but the midrib not much thickened, the membranes
between the ridges on the calyx flat. Corolla pink or purplish
to white, the tube 9-12 mm long, often twice as long as the
calyx, the 5 broad, rounded, spreading lobes 6-9 mm long.
Style 5-8 mm long.
Flowering time: May-July.
 Fruits: capsules, elliptic, splitting along 3 lines,
containing few seeds.
Distribution
Open, rocky places at moderate to high elevations in the
mountains, in w. and s. parts of MT. Also in Lost River Mts.
in Custer Co., ID. |
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