§1 Plant
Phlox bifida Beck
vernacular cleft phlox — species · Polemoniaceae
§2Habit & range
Habit and range
- Growth habit
- Subshrub
- Duration
- Perennial
- Group
- Dicot
- Family
- Polemoniaceae Juss.
- Genus
- Phlox
§2a
Native status, by region
- L48 Lower 48 States Native
§2b
County-level range
· 100 counties across 10 states/territories§3Cultivation
No cultivation specs.
USDA has not characterised this taxon. Roughly four out of five plants in the database lack the detailed cultivation record present here — typically because they have not been the focus of NRCS Plant Materials work. Range and distribution data are unaffected.
§4Counties, by state
Recorded in 100 counties across 10 states/territories.
Arkansas view state ↗ 7 N ▾
Illinois view state ↗ 36 N ▾
- Alexander 17003
- Cass 17017
- Cook 17031
- Fulton 17057
- Grundy 17063
- Hancock 17067
- Hardin 17069
- Henderson 17071
- Henry 17073
- Iroquois 17075
- Jackson 17077
- Johnson 17087
- Kankakee 17091
- Lake 17097
- LaSalle 17099
- Lee 17103
- Logan 17107
- Macon 17115
- Mason 17125
- McHenry 17111
- Menard 17129
- Monroe 17133
- Morgan 17137
- Ogle 17141
- Peoria 17143
- Pope 17151
- Randolph 17157
- Sangamon 17167
- Scott 17171
- Tazewell 17179
- Union 17181
- Wabash 17185
- Whiteside 17195
- Will 17197
- Williamson 17199
- Winnebago 17201
Indiana view state ↗ 20 N ▾
Iowa view state ↗ 1 N ▾
Kentucky view state ↗ 9 N ▾
Michigan view state ↗ 2 N ▾
Missouri view state ↗ 17 N ▾
Oklahoma view state ↗ 1 N ▾
Tennessee view state ↗ 3 N ▾
Wisconsin view state ↗ 4 N ▾
§5Sources & provenance
USDA PLANTS
Symbol, taxonomy, distribution, cultivation specs, native status. Public domain.
plants.usda.gov/PHBI3 ↗GBIF Backbone
Canonical taxonomic identity, synonym resolution, cross-refs. CC0.
gbif.org/species/2927715 ↗Record version
Cached and built locally. Source version on this record:
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