Showy Phlox
Unusual sighting! A few of these flowers have six petals, and not the typical five! Showy phlox is one of the prettiest and widespread of the native phloxes and can be found from the American Southwest north to British Columbia, and is most often found in rocky sagebrush deserts, open grasslands, dry pine forests, and some mountain forests with lots of available sunlight. Distinctive to this species are the deeply notched pink petals. This one was found growing in Cowiche Canyon, just east of Yakima, Washington.
- Copyright
- © 2014
- Image Size
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- Keywords
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Angiosperms, Asterids, Cowiche Canyon, Cowiche Canyon Trail, Ericales, Eudicots, P. speciosa, Phlox speciosa, Plantae, Polemoniaceae, Washington, Yakima, Yakima County, beautiful, beauty, bloom, blooming, blooms, blossom, blossoms, botany, bud, color, dicot, flora, flower, flowers, forb, fresh, green, herb, native, natural, nature, perennial, phlox, pink, plant, plants, purple, showy phlox, spring, subshrub, white, wild, wildflower, wildflowers
- Contained in galleries
- Polemoniaceae (Phlox Family), Pink Wildflowers
