Phlox

Accepted species 72 Documented here 48 Family Polemoniaceae

Accepted species 72 in this genus

Every accepted species in the genus is listed. A name links to its page when we hold at least three commercially licensed photographs of it. Where we do not, the row shows how many we actually found, which is usually none.

SpeciesAuthority Usable photographsPage
Phlox divaricata L. 1,600 documented
Phlox paniculata L. 903 documented
Phlox pilosa L. 697 documented
Phlox longifolia Nutt. 567 documented
Phlox hoodii Richardson 457 documented
Phlox diffusa Benth. 415 documented
Phlox drummondii Hook. 407 documented
Phlox subulata L. 300 documented
Phlox roemeriana Scheele 201 documented
Phlox nana Nutt. 187 documented
Phlox carolina L. 181 documented
Phlox condensata (A.Gray) E.E.Nelson 161 documented
Phlox stolonifera Sims 151 documented
Phlox speciosa Pursh 142 documented
Phlox multiflora A.Nelson 118 documented
Phlox austromontana Coville 112 documented
Phlox nivalis G.Lodd. ex Sweet 105 documented
Phlox nivalis G.Lodd. 105 documented
Phlox amoena Sims 80 documented
Phlox glaberrima L. 78 documented
Phlox bifida L.C.Beck 69 documented
Phlox maculata L. 62 documented
Phlox douglasii Hook. 37 documented
Phlox tenuifolia E.E.Nelson 29 documented
Phlox andicola (Britton) E.E.Nelson 26 documented
Phlox ovata L. 26 documented
Phlox amabilis Brand 25 documented
Phlox cuspidata Scheele 24 documented
Phlox alyssifolia Greene 22 documented
Phlox adsurgens Torr. ex A.Gray 21 documented
Phlox dolichantha A.Gray 21 documented
Phlox woodhousei (A.Gray) E.E.Nelson 19 documented
Phlox pulvinata (Wherry) Cronquist 15 documented
Phlox amplifolia Britton 14 documented
Phlox buckleyi Wherry 13 documented
Phlox glabriflora Whitehouse 10 documented
Phlox griseola Wherry 8 documented
Phlox hirsuta E.E.Nelson 7 documented
Phlox pulchra Wherry 7 documented
Phlox colubrina Wherry & Constance 6 documented
Phlox sibirica L. 6 documented
Phlox caespitosa Nutt. 4 documented
Phlox dispersa Sharsm. 3 documented
Phlox floridana Benth. 3 documented
Phlox gladiformis (M.E.Jones) E.E.Nelson 3 documented
Phlox missoulensis Wherry 3 documented
Phlox pungens Dorn 3 documented
Phlox viscida E.E.Nelson 3 documented
Phlox albomarginata M.E.Jones 2 below the evidence gate
Phlox caryophylla Wherry 2 below the evidence gate
Phlox richardsonii Hook. 2 below the evidence gate
Phlox aculeata A.Nelson 0 below the evidence gate
Phlox cluteana A.Nelson 0 below the evidence gate
Phlox clutena A.Nelson 0 below the evidence gate
Phlox glutinosa Buckley 0 below the evidence gate
Phlox hendersonii (E.E.Nelson) Cronquist 0 below the evidence gate
Phlox idahonis Wherry 0 below the evidence gate
Phlox kelseyi Britton 0 below the evidence gate
Phlox mesoleuca Greene 0 below the evidence gate
Phlox mexicana Wherry 0 below the evidence gate
Phlox mollis Wherry 0 below the evidence gate
Phlox oklahomensis Wherry 0 below the evidence gate
Phlox opalensis Dorn 0 below the evidence gate
Phlox pattersonii Prather 0 below the evidence gate
Phlox peckii Wherry 0 below the evidence gate
Phlox pyramidalis Sm. 0 below the evidence gate
Phlox rigida Benth. 0 below the evidence gate
Phlox solivaga Mayfield & Darrach 0 below the evidence gate
Phlox triovulata Thurb. ex Torr. 0 below the evidence gate
Phlox variabilis Brand 0 below the evidence gate
Phlox vermejoensis B.S.Legler 0 below the evidence gate
Phlox viridis E.E.Nelson 0 below the evidence gate

Why some species have no pagethe gate

This site is commercial, so it can only publish photographs licensed for commercial use. Roughly three quarters of the photographs on iNaturalist are CC BY-NC, which excludes them. A species needs at least three usable photographs before we will build it a page, because a page with one picture and no traits tells you nothing you could not get from a search result, and generating hundreds of thousands of those is precisely the practice that got the previous version of this site deleted.

So the species above without a link are not errors and they are not omissions. They are real, accepted plants that we cannot yet document to the standard we hold ourselves to, and the count in the photographs column is exactly how far short we fall.

Sourcesevery claim on this page

  1. World Flora Online Plant List. Accepted names, authorities, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
  2. iNaturalist. Photograph counts, restricted to CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA. Retrieved 2026-06-27.