phlox

phlox  (flks)

n. pl. phlox or phlox·es

Any of various North American plants of the genus Phlox, having opposite leaves and flowers with a variously colored salverform corolla.

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[Latin, a kind of flame-colored flower, from Greek, flame, wallflower; see bhel-¹ in Indo-European roots.]

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phlox

Noun

pl phlox or phloxes a plant with clusters of white, red, or purple flowers [Greek, literally: flame]

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phlox - any polemoniaceous plant of the genus Phlox; chiefly North American; cultivated for their clusters of flowers herb, herbaceous plant - a plant lacking a permanent woody stem; many are flowering garden plants or potherbs; some having medicinal properties; some are pests genus Phlox - herbaceous to shrubby evergreen or deciduous annuals or perennials, diffuse (spreading) or caespitose (tufted or matted); from Alaska and western Canada to Mexico chickweed phlox, Phlox bifida, Phlox stellaria, sand phlox - low mat-forming herb of rocky places in United States dwarf phlox, moss phlox, mountain phlox, Phlox subulata, moss pink - low tufted perennial phlox with needlelike evergreen leaves and pink or white flowers; native to United States and widely cultivated as a ground cover fringed pink, ground pink, Linanthus dianthiflorus, moss pink - low wiry-stemmed branching herb or southern California having fringed pink flowers evening-snow, Linanthus dichotomus - small California annual with white flowers