Moss phlox
ഫ്ലോക്സ് സുബുലേറ്റ
Phlox subulata L.
- light
- Sun–part
- water
- Medium
- tall
- 13 cm
- wide
- 76 cm
Polemoniaceae
Formerly Armeria subulata, Phlox brittonii, Phlox setacea
When it flowers
Not known yet in the tropics: too few flowering observations to read a season from.
Read from iNaturalist photographs of it in flower. A month counts at 50% of the best month's flowering share (smoothed over three months) and 10% of its flowering count, from at least 100 flowering observations in the band.
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Something wrong with it?About it
- Grows as
- SubshrubKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Climate
- TemperateKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Wild in
- C. & E. Canada to EC. & E. U.S.A.Kew's checklist, not yet checked
- Light
- Full sun to part shade (3 h or more)Read from NC State Extension, one source
- Height
- 10 cm to 15 cmRead from NC State Extension, one source
- Spread
- 61 cm to 91 cmRead from NC State Extension, one source
- Water
- Average: moist, well drainedRead from NC State Extension, one source
- Flowers
- White, red, pink, purple, blueRead from NC State Extension, one source
- Coldest it survives
- -40 °C (USDA zone 3a)Read from NC State Extension, one source
Not known yet: heat, hottest it survives.
In other languages (12)
- root
- PHLSUB
- French
- phlox mousse
- Czech
- plamenka šídlovitá
- Norwegian Bokmål
- vårfloks
- Dutch
- Mosvlambloem
- Russian
- Флокс шиловидный
- Finnish
- sammalleimu
- Polish
- Floks szydlasty
- Japanese
- シバザクラ, ハナツメクサ, モスフロックス
- Korean
- 꽃잔디, 지면패랭이꽃
- Slovak
- flox šidlolistý
- Chinese (China)
- 针叶天蓝绣球
Where this comes from
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC0-1.0 (observation counts)
- Wikidata, read 2026-10-26, CC0-1.0
- Kew's checklist, read 2026-10-24, CC-BY-4.0
- NC State Extension, read 2026-10-25, fact, cited
- Wikimedia Commons, read 2026-10-25, CC BY-SA 3.0
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC0
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY
- 3D model: Phlox subulata (built for Vanagrha) by Vanagrha, own
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