Scientific Name: Phlox drummondii
Common Name: annual phlox
Family Name: Polemoniaceae
Origin: U.S. - southwest
Hardiness Zone: Zone 3: (-40 to -34 °C)
Plant Type: Annual (true)
Mature Size: 0.2 - 0.4m x 0.1 - 0.3m (height x width)
Habit: Dense, Pendulous, Spreading, Upright
Form: Mounded
Texture: Medium
Landscape Uses: Attract birds, Attract butterflies, Bedding plant, Container planting
Exposure: Full sun
Soil or Media: Well-drained
Leaves: Simple, Alternate, Opposite, Soft flexible, Pinnate venation, Pubescent, Lanceolate, Oblong, Ovate, Ciliate, Entire
Flowers: Cyme, White, Blue, Violet, Purple, Pink, Red, Apr-May-Jun-Jul
Fruit: Capsule, Brown, Sep-Oct
Key ID Features:
Leaves opposite (lower) or alternate (upper), oblong to lance-shaped, clasping stem, up to 8cm long.