phlox

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Definition of phlox in English English dictionary: Any flowering plant of the genus Phlox; Any of various North American plants of the genus Phlox, having opposite leaves and flowers with a variously colored salverform corolla. Any of about 65 species of plants (genus Phlox), belonging to the family Polemoniaceae, admired both in gardens and in the wilds for their clustered heads of flowers. All species but one are native to North America. Phlox is herbaceous, usually with oval or linear leaves; it has heads of massed tubular flowers with five flaring lobes. A few species are woody, but most are herbaceous annuals or perennials. Sizes range from the 5-ft-high (1.5-m) summer phlox (P. paniculata) to the 18-in.-high (45-cm) woodland perennial blue phlox (P. divaricata) to the low-creeping, freely branching, evergreen moss pink, or creeping phlox (P. subulata); A genus of American herbs, having showy red, white, or purple flowers; Any flowering plant of the genus Phlox, sensitive to drought; any polemoniaceous plant of the genus Phlox; chiefly North American; cultivated for their clusters of flowers; {i} flowering garden plant
chickweed phlox: low mat-forming herb of rocky places in United States
genus phlox: herbaceous to shrubby evergreen or deciduous annuals or perennials, diffuse (spreading) or caespitose (tufted or matted); from Alaska and western Canada to Mexico

phlox

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[ 'fläks ] (noun.) circa 1706. New Latin, from Latin, a flower, from Greek, flame, wallflower.

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