Higher Taxonomy
Common Name: PHLOX FAMILY Habit: Annual, perennial herb, shrub, vine. Leaf: simple or compound, cauline (or most basal), alternate or opposite; stipules 0. Inflorescence: cymes, heads, clusters, or flower 1; bracts in involucres or not. Flower: sepals generally 5, fused at base, translucent membrane generally connecting lobes, torn by fruit; corolla generally 5-lobed, radial or bilateral, salverform to bell-shaped, throat often well defined; stamens generally 5, epipetalous, attached at >= 1 level, filaments of >= 1 length, pollen white, yellow, blue, or red; ovary superior, chambers generally 3, style 1, stigmas generally 3. Fruit: capsule. Seed: 1--many, when wetted swelling or not, gelatinous or not. Genera In Family: 26 genera, 314 species: America, northern Europe, northern Asia; some cultivated (Cantua, Cobaea (cup-and-saucer vine), Collomia, Gilia, Ipomopsis, Linanthus, Phlox). Note: Leptodactylon moved to Linanthus. eFlora Treatment Author: Robert Patterson, family description, key to genera, except as noted Scientific Editor: Robert Patterson, Thomas J. Rosatti.
| Habit: Perennial herb or +- subshrub, open to matted or cushion-like. Stem: prostrate or decumbent to erect. Leaf: cauline, opposite, simple, sessile, lance-linear to elliptic, entire. Flower: corolla salverform; stamens attached at > 1 level, some unequal. Species In Genus: +- 60 species: North America, Siberia. Etymology: (Greek: flame, ancient name for Lychnis of Caryophyllaceae) Note: Phlox gracilis moved to Microsteris. eFlora Treatment Author: Carolyn J. Ferguson, Suzanne C. Strakosh & Robert Patterson Reference: Locklear 2009 J Bot Res Inst Texas 3:645--658 Unabridged Reference: Cronquist 1984 Intermountain Flora 4:95--107
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Phlox hoodii Richardson subsp. canescens (Torr. & A. Gray) Wherry
NATIVEHabit: Plant +- matted to cushion-like, +- glabrous to woolly, not glandular. Stem: glabrous. Leaf: +- awl-like, generally hairy. Inflorescence: terminal; flowers 1, sessile. Flower: calyx 7--8 mm, woolly near lobe bases; corolla white to lilac, tube 10--12 mm. Ecology: Open, rocky areas, sagebrush scrub, pinyon/juniper woodland; Elevation: 1500--2700 m. Bioregional Distribution: n SNH, GB; Distribution Outside California: Montana, Utah, northern Arizona. Flowering Time: May--Jul Synonyms: Phlox hoodii Richardson subsp. lanata (Piper) Munz Jepson eFlora Author: Carolyn J. Ferguson, Suzanne C. Strakosh & Robert Patterson Reference: Locklear 2009 J Bot Res Inst Texas 3:645--658 Unabridged Reference: Cronquist 1984 Intermountain Flora 4:95--107Jepson Online Interchange
Previous taxon: Phlox hirsutaNext taxon: Phlox muscoides
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Citation for this treatment: Carolyn J. Ferguson, Suzanne C. Strakosh & Robert Patterson 2012, Phlox hoodii subsp. canescens, in Jepson Flora Project (eds.) Jepson eFlora, http://ucjeps.berkeley.edu/eflora/eflora_display.php?tid=52198, accessed on February 17, 2019.
Citation for the whole project: Jepson Flora Project (eds.) 2019, Jepson eFlora, http://ucjeps.berkeley.edu/eflora/, accessed on February 17, 2019.
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Geographic subdivisions for Phlox hoodii subsp. canescens:
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(Note: any qualifiers in the taxon distribution description, such as 'northern', 'southern', 'adjacent' etc., are not reflected in the map above, and in some cases indication of a taxon in a subdivision is based on a single collection or author-verified occurence).
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