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Plant Detail
Botanical Name
Phlox divericata - L.
Family
Polemoniaceae
Common Name
Wild blue phlox (E).
Habit
Herb
Synonym
Phlox divaricata f. divaricata
Habitat
Planted in gardens
Color Of Flower
Pink
Key Characters
leaves exstipulate,flowers bisexual,actinomorphic,sepal 5, persistent,lobes twisted to right; stamens 5, epipatelous;seated on a disk, multilocular; ovules many
Systematic Position
Division :
Dicotyledonae
 
Class :
Gamopetalae
 
Series :
Bicarpellatae
 
Order :
Polemoniales
Plant Description

Annual or perennial herb; stems slender, branched, up to 35 cm high; leaves mostly opposite, sometimes upper ones alternate, linear-oblong to ovate-lanceolate, entire, acute at apex; flowers in small cymes terminating short branches; calyx lobes-5, narrowly subulate; corolla blue or pinkish blue, hypocrateriform, lobes flat, often notched, tube slender; stamens 5, unequal, usually included; ovary oblong or ovoid, 3-locular, style slender, trifid; capsule 3-valved, many seeded.

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