Phlox subulata L.

• Authority

  Gleason, Henry A. & Cronquist, Arthur J. 1991. Manual of vascular plants of northeastern United States and adjacent Canada. lxxv + 910 pp.

• Family

  Polemoniaceae

• Scientific Name

  Phlox subulata L.

• Description

  Species Description - Perennial by a prostrate suffruticose stem, freely branched and with numerous flowering branches 5–20 cm; lvs numerous and crowded, subulate, mostly 5–20 mm, sharp-pointed, usually ciliate, often with axillary fascicles; cymes few-fld; cor rose-purple to pink or white, 12–20 mm wide, its lobes notched an eighth to a fourth their length; style elongate; 2n=14. Sandy or gravelly soil and rock- ledges; s. N.Y. to s. Mich., s. to the mts. of N.C. and Tenn., and occasionally escaped from cult. as far n. as Me. Apr., May. Var. subulata, without glands in the infl, is northern. (P. ciliata) Var. setacea (L.) Brand, with glandular-hairy infl, is southern, extending n. to s. O. and southernmost Pa. (P. s. var. australis; P. brittonii)

• Common Names

  moss-pink