Soft Phlox (Phlox mollis)
Description
A tufted, woody-based perennial with flowering stems 5-15cm tall, the whole plant densely covered with short, arching hairs. Leaves narrowly lanceolate to linear, slender-pointed, up to 3cm long. Flowers 2-2.4cm wide, purple to pink, lightly fragrant, solitary or in twos and threes, spring. Eastern Washington State and adjacent Idaho, in the Rocky Mountains and Columbia Plateau /on open stony slopes.
Taxonomic tree
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Domain: Eukarya
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Kingdom: Plantae
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Phylum: Magnoliophyta
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Class: Magnoliopsida
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Order: Ericales
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Family: Polemoniaceae
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Genus: Phlox
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