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| Common Name: Type: Family: Zone: Height: Spread: Bloom Time: Bloom Description: Sun: Water: Maintenance: Flower: Showy, Attracts: Tolerate: |
garden phlox Herbaceous perennial Polemoniaceae 4 to 8 2.00 to 3.00 feet 1.50 to 2.00 feet July to September Pale pink Full sun to part shade Medium Medium Showy, Fragrant Hummingbirds, Butterflies Deer, Clay Soil |
Grow in moderately fertile, medium moisture, well-drained soil in full sun to part shade. Best in full sun. Prefers rich, moist, organic soils. Needs good air circulation (space well and thin out stems as needed) to help combat potential powdery mildew problems. Intolerant of drought and needs to be watered in dry spells. Avoid overhead watering however. Appreciates a summer mulch which helps keep the root zone cool. Deadheading spent flower clusters will usually not extend bloom time for early fall bloomers, but will greatly improve plant appearance and will prevent any unwanted self-seeding (cultivars generally do not come true from seed). Phlox paniculata, commonly known as garden phlox, is native from New York to Iowa south to Georgia, Mississippi and Arkansas. It has escaped gardens and naturalized into areas beyond its original native range. In Missouri, it is typically found south of the Missouri River in moist or rich low woods, thickets, alluvial banks and gravel bars along streams and bluff bases (Steyermark). This is an upright perennial that grows in a clump to 2-4′ tall and to 2-3′ wide on stiff stems clad with conspicuously veined, opposite, pointed, elliptic, deep green leaves (to 4-6″ long). Fragrant, tubular, pink-purple to white florets (to 3/4” diameter) are densely packed in large, tiered, domed terminal clusters (to 6-8″) over a long July to September bloom period. Each individual floret has a long corolla tube and five flat petal-like lobes. Butterflies love the flowers. |
| Information on this page is from Missouri Botanical Gardens. or Dave’s Garden |
