Phlox alyssifolia - photos and description

Saskatchewan's Wildflowers

Prostrate plant with pale lavender to white flowers measured at 2 cm in diameter, flowering stems measured to 9 cm tall, stems woody at base. Leaves are oblong to linear, 6 to 15 mm in length, with sharp tips. Leaves with a few long hairs on margin and top surface, stems pubescent with long hairs.

Habitat is dry benchland and clay hills in southern Saskatchewan.

Rare, listed as an S2 by the Saskatchewan Conservation Data Centre.

Photos taken May 31st on steep clay hills near Rockglen, about 200 km southwest of our home in Regina, SK.

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