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Drummond Phlox
Phlox drummondii
Drummond Phlox is a low, bushy annual wildflower that blankets open ground in a carpet of five-petaled, trumpet-shaped blooms from spring into early summer. Sticky, hairy foliage covers slender branching stems rarely more than a foot tall, and the flowers - white, red, pink, purple or peach, often with a contrasting eye - draw bees, butterflies and hummingbirds, with pipevine swallowtails the primary pollinator. It grows quickly from seed in well-drained, sandy to clay ground and reseeds itself readily where left undisturbed.
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Growing profile
- Sun
- Full Sun · Partial Sun
- USDA zone
- USDA 2–11
- Soil
- Sand · Loam · Clay
- Moisture
- Dry · Well-Drained
Vertical layer
Herbaceous- Soil pH
- 7.2–7.2
- Plant type
- Annual
- Mature height
- 6–15 in
- Mature spread
- 6–18 in
- Plant spacing
- 8–12 in
- Root type
- Not yet recorded
- Spread pattern
- Seed
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