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See also:PHLOX (Nat. Ord. Polemoniaceae) , a genus of about 30 See also:species, mostly perennial See also:hardy See also:plants of See also:great beauty, natives of See also:North See also:America (one occurs in See also:Siberia), with entire, usually opposite, leaves and showy See also:flowers generally in termina clusters . Each See also:flower has a tubular calyx with five lobes, and a See also:salver shaped corolla with a See also:long slender See also:tube and a See also:flat See also:limb . The five stamens are given off from the tube of the corolla at different heights and do not protrude beyond it . The ovary is three-celled with one to two ovules in each See also:cell; it ripens into a three-valved See also:capsule . Many of the species and varieties are tall herbs yielding a See also:wealth of See also:bloom throughout the summer and See also:early autumn . These require a deep, See also:rich, and rather heavy See also:loam, and a cool, moist position to flourish . The See also:dwarf perennial species and varieties, the " See also:moss pinks " of gardens, are charming plants for the rockery and as edging to beds and See also:borders . They are trailing and tufted in See also:habit, the branches rooting at the nodes . They succeed in poorer See also:soil, and drier situations than the tall kinds . See also:Seed is seldom produced . See also:Propagation is effected by cuttings in See also:July and early See also:August, placed in a See also:cold See also:frame, and by See also:division of the plants, which should be lifted carefully, and cut into rooted portions as required . The tufted kinds decay in patches in See also:winter if the situation is moist and the See also:weather mild and wet .
See also:Phlox Drummondii and its numerous varieties are See also:half-hardy annuals in See also:Britain
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It is a small-growing hairy plant, flowering profusely during the summer months
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For early flowering it should be sown in See also:heat in See also:
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