Smooth Phlox
by Paul Rebmann
Title
Smooth Phlox
Artist
Paul Rebmann
Medium
Photograph - Photograph
Description
A close-up looking down on a circular cluster of smooth phlox flowers. Photographed at Craggy Gardens along the Blue Ridge Parkway in North Carolina.
In Florida smooth phlox is an occasional wildflower of bluffs and floodplain forests in the panhandle west of the Ochlockonee River. The range extends throughout wet to moist prairies and forests of the southeastern states, west into Oklahoma and north into Wisconsin.
This rhizomatous perennial grows in erect clumps of glabrous stems up to 61cm (2 ft.) tall. The rose-pink to reddish-purple blooms appear in the spring and summer in large terminal clusters. The corolla is a long tube that flares out into five lobes about 2.5cm (1 in.) across. The longest stamens are even with or protrude from the throat of the corolla. The leaves are lanceolate, 10cm (4 in.) long, dark green with fine-toothed margins.
(Subject description from the artist's Wild Florida Photo website www.wildflphoto.com)
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October 29th, 2023
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