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 W. Patterson, family description, key to genera, except as noted Scientific Editor: Robert W. 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. 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
Phlox austromontana Coville
NATIVE Habit: Plant +- matted to cushion-like, +- glabrous to sparsely hairy, not glandular. Leaf: 10--15 mm, lanceolate, stiff, sharp-tipped, adaxially hairy, abaxially generally glabrous. Inflorescence: terminal; flowers 1; pedicel short. Flower: calyx membrane low-keeled at base; corolla white to pink or lavender, tube 11--14 mm, lobes generally rounded. Ecology: Dry, rocky areas, pinyon/juniper woodland, conifer forest, sagebrush scrub; Elevation: 1500--2700 m. Bioregional Distribution: SnGb, SnBr, PR; Distribution Outside California: to western Colorado, Arizona, Baja California. Flowering Time: May--Jun Synonyms: Phlox austromontana subsp. austromontana; Phlox austromontana subsp. prostrata (E.E. Nelson) Wherry Jepson eFlora Author: Carolyn J. Ferguson, Suzanne C. Strakosh & Robert Patterson Reference: Locklear 2009 J Bot Res Inst Texas 3:645--658 Index of California Plant Names (ICPN; linked via the Jepson Online Interchange) Previous taxon: Phlox adsurgens Next taxon: Phlox condensata
Botanical illustration including Phlox austromontana
Citation for this treatment: Carolyn J. Ferguson, Suzanne C. Strakosh & Robert Patterson 2012, Phlox austromontana, in Jepson Flora Project (eds.) Jepson eFlora, https://ucjeps.berkeley.edu/eflora/eflora_display.php?tid=37785, accessed on December 03, 2024.
Citation for the whole project: Jepson Flora Project (eds.) 2024, Jepson eFlora, https://ucjeps.berkeley.edu/eflora/, accessed on December 03, 2024.
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