Phlox diffusa is a species of phlox known by the common name spreading phlox. It is native to western North America from British Columbia to the southwestern United States to the Dakotas, where it grows in many types of habitat, including rocky, high elevation mountain slopes. It is a very compact mat-forming perennial herb growing in cushions or patches of short, decumbent stems. The linear, lance-shaped, or needle-like leaves are no more than 1.5 centimeters long and are oppositely arranged in bundles on the short stems. The inflorescence is a solitary tubular flower around a centimeter long. It has a flat white or pale pink or blue corolla with five lobes each just under a centimeter in length.
Phloxdiffusa is a species of phlox known by the common name spreading phlox. It is native to western North America from British Columbia to the southwestern...
a nearly solid floral blanket of the underlying plant. Spreading phlox (Phloxdiffusa) is a matted perennial with sprawling stems.: 181 At very high-elevations...
bird's-eye gilia, tricolor gilia) is an annual flowering plant in the phlox family (Polemoniaceae). It is native to the Central Valley and foothills...
Luis Mountain ipomopsis (Ipomopsis pinnata) Santa Catalina Mountain phlox (Phlox tenuifolia) star gilia (Gilia stellata) blue milkwort (Polygala barbeyana)...
Eriastrum diffusum is a species of flowering plant in the phlox family known by the common name miniature woollystar. It is native to the southwestern...
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