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Habitat: |
rich, moist woods, also found in drier sites |
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Plant Height: |
30-50 cm tall flowering stems; vegetative stems decumbent; plants rhizomatous |
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Flower Color: |
pink/lavender/purple/blue |
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Flower: |
perfect; complete; 5 lobed petals create tube before spreading into star shape; 1 cm wide; 5 stamens of unequal length |
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Inflorescence: |
compact cyme |
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Fruit: |
capsule |
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Leaves: |
variable; opposite; simple; sessile; entire; lanceolate (tapering to point) to elliptic or narrowly oblong |
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Bloom Time: |
April-June |
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Origins: |
native |
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Other: |
also known as Spring Phlox; divaricate means widely spreading ; most plants have pubescence on stems, leaves and pedicles
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