![]() ![]() The root system produces stolons which develop into non-flowering shoots as it forms a loose mat of foliage up to a foot high. to have both fertile (flowering) and infertile (non-flowering) shoots. Woodland phlox grows from a shallow root system, slowly spreading over time ( divaricata means “with a spreading and straggling habit”). subulata, including the cultivars ‘White Delight’ (RC) and ‘Candy Stripe’ (R), is shorter, more compact and needs full sun. Phlox stolonifera (L and cultivar ‘Sherwood Purple’, LC) is shorter than P. stolonifera (also called creeping phlox), is much shorter at only 6-8 inches tall, forms dense clumps, has oval leaves and fewer lavender to pink blooms in the flower clusters, and is only hardy to zone 5. subulata) and does not spread as quickly as that species does. It is taller and has a more open habit than the very common, sun-loving creeping phlox or moss ( P. This plant, also sometimes is referred to by other common names including blue phlox, Louisiana phlox, wild blue phlox and wild sweet William, is hardy in zones 3 to 8. This herbaceous perennial in the phlox family (Polemoniaceae) can be found growing in dappled shade in open woods, partially shaded meadows, and along stream banks from Quebec to Florida and west to Texas and the Rockies. Woodland phlox, Phlox divaricata, is an eastern North American native increasingly offered as an ornamental to use in cultivated gardens for its attractive bluish flowers. ![]() Woodland phlox in habitat in a maple woods in southern Wisconsin. ![]()
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