Scientific Name
Phlox carolina
Common Name
Carolina phlox
Wildflowers
Plant Fact Sheets
Consumer Hort
Life Cycle:
Perennial
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Height:
2 to 3 feet
Flower/fruit:
Compact terminal inflorescence; .5 to .75 inch pink flowers; five rounded corolla lobes
Flowering Season:
Early summer
Foliage:
Tufted, minutely downy to hairy stems; 5 to 12 pairs of lance-shaped to narrowly egg-shaped leaves; 1.5 to 4 inches long
Site:
Deciduous woods, forest margins
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