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Blue Phlox
Blue Phlox
Phlox divaricata
Plantae
COMMON

Stats

Lifespan
Perennial
Size
Small
Diet
Photosynthetic
Biome
Temperate forest
Range
Eastern North America
Movement
Sessile
Breeding
Seeds
Defense
Camouflage
Status
Common

About

Blue Phlox is a woodland perennial that carpets forest floors with fragrant, lavender-blue flowers each spring. Each five-petaled bloom has a distinctive notch at the tip of every petal, giving the flower a pinwheel-like shape.

Life cycle

  1. 1.
    seed
    A dormant seed waits for water and warmth before germinating.
  2. 2.
    sprout
    A first shoot emerges with cotyledon leaves and a tap root reaching down.
  3. 3.
    sapling
    A young plant grows true leaves and a stem or trunk, putting on height each season.
  4. 4.
    mature
    Fully grown, flowering or fruiting at adult size.

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Taxonomy

Kingdom
Plantae
Phylum
Tracheophyta
Class
Magnoliopsida
Order
Ericales
Family
Polemoniaceae
Genus
Phlox
Species
Phlox divaricata