1066

Forb
Perennial

Native to North Carolina

Documented growing wild in - NC -

Rare south of VA

Look for it on dry & exposed rock outcrops, rocky flood-scoured riversides, dry woodlands over a wide variety of rocks, shale barrens, per Weakley's Flora

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...Dry

LEAVES:
Semi-evergreen
Simple
Opposite

FLOWER:
Spring
Pink/ Pale blue-violet
Bisexual
Radially symmetrical
5-merous
5-lobed salverform corolla
5 exserted stamens
Superior ovary

FRUIT:
Spring
Capsule

 

TO LEARN MORE about this plant, look it up in a good book!

• All About South Carolina Wildflowers p222
• Newcomb's Wildflower Guide p246
• Southern Appalachian Wildflowers p163
• Wild Flowers of NC, 1st edition p157
• Wildflowers of Tennessee p203
• Wildflowers of Tennessee, the Ohio Valley, and the Southern Appalachians p240
• Wildflowers of the Southern Mountains p132

Spermatophytes (seed plants): Angiosperms (flowering plants): Eudicots: Core Eudicots: Asterids: Ericales

WEAKLEY'S FLORA (11/30/12):
Phlox subulata   FAMILY Polemoniaceae

INCLUDING PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Phlox subulata +   FAMILY Polemoniaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (1968) 159-01-003:
Phlox subulata   FAMILY Polemoniaceae