| Scientific Name: | Phlox paniculata |
| Common Name: | summer phlox, border phlox, common phlox |
| Family Name: | Polemoniaceae |
| Origin: | U.S. - northeast |
| Hardiness Zone: | Zone 3: (-40 to -34 °C) |
| Plant Type: | Flowering cut plant, Herbaceous perennial |
| Mature Size: | 0.7 - 1.3m x 0.6 - 1.0m (height x width) |
| Habit: | Stiffly upright |
| Form: | Oval - vertical |
| Texture: | Medium |
| Landscape Uses: | Cut flower or foliage, Filler, Floristry, Fragrance, Group or mass planting, Mixed shrub border, Perennial border, Summer interest, Tall background |
| Exposure: | Full sun, Part sun/part shade |
| Soil or Media: | Rocky or gravelly or dry, Well-drained |
| Leaves: | Simple, Opposite, Sessile, Soft flexible, Pinnate venation, Glabrous, Elliptic, Lanceolate, Oblanceolate, Ovate, Ciliate, Dentate |
| Flowers: | Thyrse, White, Blue, Violet, Purple, Pink, Red, Dark-red, Jul-Aug |
| Fruit: | Capsule, Brown, Sep-Oct |
| Key ID Features: | |
| Tall stalks; leaves opposite, most lanceolate to elliptic, 8-12cm long x 2-3cm wide; inflorescence panicle-like (thyrse), flowers 2-3cm wide, 5 petals fuse at base to form a narrow tube, Jul-Aug. | |