Wild Blue Phlox, Phlox divaricata L., Native Minnesota Wildflower plant, Eloise Butler Wildflower Garden

	Plants of the Eloise Butler Wildflower Garden
	Common Name	Scientific Name	Plant Family	Garden Location	Prime Season
	Wild Blue Phlox	Phlox divaricata L.	Phlox	Upland, Woodland	Spring to Early Summer
Other names and notes	A delicate phantom of the semi-open woods, the stems can be from 1 to 2 feet high, with only a few opposite lance shaped leaves. The flowers range from light blue to purple, are about 1" across with the lobes as long as the flower tube. Stamens do not protrude. Flowers in clusters at the top of the stem.


These plants were in bloom in mid-May in the Fern Grove.

Notes: Eloise Butler obtained plants for the Garden numerous times, first in 1907 from the Government Reservation (Ft. Snelling area), again in 1908 and 1911 from a source in Minnetonka MN; on April 11, 1912 from Groveland Park, Minneapolis. This plant was listed on Martha Crone's 1951 inventory of plants in the Garden at that time. It is native to most counties in the southern half of Minnesota except the far SW. Not known north of Morrison and Pine counties.

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References: Plant characteristics are generally from sources 15, 16, 30, 31, 33, W2 & W3. Distribution principally from W2 and also 31, 34 and W1. Planting history generally from 1, 4 & 4a. Other sources by specific reference. See Reference List for details.

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