Phlox speciosa
showy phlox

Family: Polemoniaceae (Phlox family)

© 2003 Thayne Tuason. Photo taken near Mountain Home near Leavenworth Washington, open to partially shaded woods.

© 2010 Thayne Tuason. Colockum Wildlife Area 3/23/10. Open dry slopes.

© 2010 Thayne Tuason. Colockum Wildlife Area 3/23/10.

Flowers:

inflorescence terminal, lower parts with leafy bracts; calyx 7 to 10 mm, intercostal membranes flat or nearly so; style short, 0.5 to 2 cm; peduncles 3 to 20 mm

Leaves:

linear to broadly lanceolate, up to 7 cm long by 1 cm wide, most leaves greater than 2 mm wide

Plant:

perennial; stems erect, 15 to 50 cm tall, openly branched; generally more or less hairy or glandular, especially upwards, seldom wholly glabrous

Habitat:

widespread in sagebrush and ponderosa pine areas

Distribution of species:

east Cascades from Washington to California, and to Montana

Distribution of genus:

more or less 60 species: America, Siberia