4259

Subshrub; Forb

Native north and west of the Carolinas & Georgia
Documented growing wild in - - -

Rare

Look for it on cliffs, rock outcrops, dry rocky or sandy sites, per Weakley's Flora

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...Dry

LEAVES:
Simple
Opposite

FLOWER:
Spring/Summer
Blue, blue-violet, white
Bisexual
Radially symmetrical
5-merous
5-lobed salverform corolla
5 stamens
Superior ovary

FRUIT:
Capsule

 

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

• Wildflowers of Tennessee p203
• Wildflowers of Tennessee, the Ohio Valley, and the Southern Appalachians p240

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

WEAKLEY'S FLORA (5/21/15):
Phlox bifida   FAMILY Polemoniaceae

GREATER THAN PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Phlox bifida ssp. bifida   FAMILY Polemoniaceae

GREATER THAN PLANTS National Database:
Phlox bifida ssp. stellaria