Scientific Name
Phlox glaberrima

Common Name
Smooth phlox

Life Cycle: Perennial


Height: 1 to 4 feet
Flower/fruit: Tubular 5-lobed rose to reddish purple flowers, 1 inch in diameter with long corolla tubes; aromatic; produced in large, showy, terminal pyramidal clusters
Flowering Season: Spring to early summer
Foliage: 10 to 20 pairs of up to 5 inch, very thin, opposite lance-shaped leaves; hairless
Site: Wet woods, thickets, meadows; sun to partial shade
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