Phlox adsurgens

Northern phlox

Family: Polemoniaceae · Type: perennial · Native

Northern phlox is a California native perennial found in the Klamath Ranges, northern Coast Ranges, and Cascade Range in open, wooded areas and mixed-evergreen and montane conifer forests at elevations of 500 to 2,000 meters. Flowering from June to August, this plant produces bright pink flowers with rounded corolla lobes in delicate clusters. Growing with decumbent stems 10 to 30 centimeters long and erect flower branches, it forms low-spreading clusters in forest understories. Its leaves are elliptic-ovate, 1 to 3 centimeters long and 1 to 4 centimeters wide, growing glabrous and bright green. The flowers feature glandular-hairy calyxes with lobes longer than the tube, creating a distinctive appearance in woodland settings.

Habitat: Open, wooded areas, mixed-evergreen and montane conifer forest

Bloom period: Jun-Aug

Elevation: 500-2000 m

Bioregions: KR, NCoRO, NCoRH, CaR

California counties: Siskiyou, Humboldt, Trinity, Mendocino, Del Norte

Data from The California Species Project — 14,000+ California species with verified data from CNPS, CDFW, USFWS, Jepson eFlora, Cal-IPC, and more.