phlox

P0250300 (flŏks)n. pl. phlox or phlox·es Any of various North American plants of the genus Phlox, having opposite leaves and flowers with a variously colored salverform corolla.

[New Latin Phlox, genus name, coined by Carolus Linnaeus, from Latin phlox, a kind of plant bearing showy, odorless flowers, from Greek, flame, wallflower (wallflowers being so called because of their flamelike color); see bhel- in Indo-European roots.]

phlox

(flɒks) n, pl phlox or phloxes (Plants) any polemoniaceous plant of the chiefly North American genus Phlox: cultivated for their clusters of white, red, or purple flowers[C18: via Latin from Greek: a plant of glowing colour, literally: flame]

phlox

(flɒks)

n., pl. phlox, phlox•es. any plant of the genus Phlox, of North America, certain species of which are cultivated for their flowers. [1700–10; < New Latin; Latin: a flame-colored plant < Greek phlóx literally, flame]

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phlox - any polemoniaceous plant of the genus Phlox; chiefly North American; cultivated for their clusters of flowersherb, herbaceous plant - a plant lacking a permanent woody stem; many are flowering garden plants or potherbs; some having medicinal properties; some are pestsgenus Phlox - herbaceous to shrubby evergreen or deciduous annuals or perennials, diffuse (spreading) or caespitose (tufted or matted); from Alaska and western Canada to Mexicochickweed phlox, Phlox bifida, Phlox stellaria, sand phlox - low mat-forming herb of rocky places in United Statesdwarf phlox, moss phlox, mountain phlox, Phlox subulata, moss pink - low tufted perennial phlox with needlelike evergreen leaves and pink or white flowers; native to United States and widely cultivated as a ground coverfringed pink, ground pink, Linanthus dianthiflorus, moss pink - low wiry-stemmed branching herb or southern California having fringed pink flowersevening-snow, Linanthus dichotomus - small California annual with white flowers

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phlox

phlox,

common name for plants of the genus Phlox and for members of the Polemoniaceae, a family of herbs (and some shrubs and vines) found chiefly in the W United States. The family includes many popular wild and garden flowers, especially the genera Phlox, Polemonium (called Jacob's ladder), and Gilia, a plant common in desert and mountain areas. Although most phloxes are perennial, the common garden phloxes are annual hybrids of the Texas species Phlox drummondii. The moss pink (Phlox subulata) is a creeping evergreen plant native to the E United States and often cultivated in rock gardens. A few species of phlox and polemonium are found in E Asia. The phlox family is classified in the division MagnoliophytaMagnoliophyta
, division of the plant kingdom consisting of those organisms commonly called the flowering plants, or angiosperms. The angiosperms have leaves, stems, and roots, and vascular, or conducting, tissue (xylem and phloem).
..... Click the link for more information. , class Magnoliopsida, order Solanales.

phlox

The tall, highgrowing perennial phlox is edible, not the low, creeping 4 inch high (10cm) phlox. Slightly spicy taste. Flower colors range from reddish purple to pink, some white. Great in salads.

Phlox

a genus of perennial and, less commonly, annual herbs and sometimes subshrubs of the family Polemoniaceae. The erect or climbing stems are only slightly branching. The entire leaves are lanceolate or narrowly ovate; they are opposite except at the upper part of the stems, where they are alternate. In species with procumbent, highly branched stems that form mats, the leaves are linear or subulate; on sterile shoots the leaves are agglomerate. The flowers are in many-flowered terminal inflorescences known as thyrses; less commonly, they are solitary. The corolla has a narrow tube and a wheel-shaped, saucer-shaped, or stellate five-parted lip. The fruit is a three-valved capsule.

There are about 60 species of phlox, distributed in North America. The USSR has one spreading mountain species— P. sibirica. Many species are ornamental. One of the best-known tall-growing perennial species is P. paniculata, which has an enormous number of varieties that differ in height, shape, and size of the inflorescences and size and coloring of the flowers. The most common spreading species include P. subulata and P. setacea, and the best-known annuals include P. drummondii. In floriculture, hybrids developed with other species of Phlox are also used.

O. M. POLETIKO

phlox

any polemoniaceous plant of the chiefly North American genus Phlox: cultivated for their clusters of white, red, or purple flowers

phlox

Related to phlox: Creeping Phlox

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noun any polemoniaceous plant of the genus Phlox

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herb
herbaceous plant
genus Phlox
chickweed phlox
Phlox bifida
Phlox stellaria
sand phlox
dwarf phlox
moss phlox
mountain phlox
Phlox subulata
moss pink
fringed pink
ground pink
Linanthus dianthiflorus
evening-snow
Linanthus dichotomus