Phlox bifida L.C.Beck

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Ada Hayden Herbarium
/	Iowa State University
Flora of Iowa
Phlox bifida Beck
Johnson County: T81N R5W Section 13 SW4 NE4 NW4 NW4
A sandy pasture (owned by Howard Ciha) is approximately 5.5 miles
east/northeast of Solon. It is a mixture of open sand prairie, scattered oaks,
woods and shallow marshes. The soil here is Chelsea loamy fine sand (63),
an Alfic Udipsamment. The pasture is on the Southern Iowa Drift Plain.
Phlox bifida is infrequent on a sand prairie slope southwest of the
southernmost marsh, A1000+ genets occur north and west of the slope. The
corollas are pale to medium blue-violet. Phlox bifida is associated with Achillea
millefolium. Aquileaia canadensis and Taraxacum officinale.
Mark J. Leoschke 1237	May 14,1991
Aaron Basten
Collected for the Iowa Department of Natural Resources