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§1 Plant
Phlox carolina L.
vernacular thickleaf phlox — species · Polemoniaceae
§2Habit & range
Habit and range
- Growth habit
- Forb/herb
- Duration
- Perennial
- Group
- Dicot
- Family
- Polemoniaceae Juss.
- Genus
- Phlox
§2a
Native status, by region
- L48 Lower 48 States Native
§2b
County-level range
· 147 counties across 12 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 147 counties across 12 states/territories.
Alabama view state ↗ 6 N ▾
Arkansas view state ↗ 1 N ▾
Georgia view state ↗ 40 N ▾
- Bartow 13015
- Ben Hill 13017
- Bulloch 13031
- Butts 13035
- Cherokee 13057
- Clarke 13059
- Clay 13061
- Cobb 13067
- Columbia 13073
- Dade 13083
- Dawson 13085
- Decatur 13087
- DeKalb 13089
- Douglas 13097
- Elbert 13105
- Forsyth 13117
- Fulton 13121
- Gilmer 13123
- Gordon 13129
- Hall 13139
- Harris 13145
- Jasper 13159
- Jones 13169
- Lamar 13171
- Lee 13177
- Lumpkin 13187
- Meriwether 13199
- Morgan 13211
- Murray 13213
- Oconee 13219
- Pickens 13227
- Rabun 13241
- Rockdale 13247
- Stephens 13257
- Troup 13285
- Union 13291
- Upson 13293
- Walker 13295
- White 13311
- Whitfield 13313
Illinois view state ↗ 2 N ▾
Kentucky view state ↗ 5 N ▾
Louisiana view state ↗ 2 N ▾
Mississippi view state ↗ 7 N ▾
Missouri view state ↗ 2 N ▾
North Carolina view state ↗ 25 N ▾
- Buncombe 37021
- Cherokee 37039
- Clay 37043
- Craven 37049
- Davidson 37057
- Durham 37063
- Forsyth 37067
- Graham 37075
- Guilford 37081
- Haywood 37087
- Henderson 37089
- Iredell 37097
- Jackson 37099
- Macon 37113
- McDowell 37111
- Orange 37135
- Polk 37149
- Rowan 37159
- Rutherford 37161
- Stanly 37167
- Swain 37173
- Transylvania 37175
- Union 37179
- Wake 37183
- Watauga 37189
South Carolina view state ↗ 35 N ▾
- Abbeville 45001
- Aiken 45003
- Bamberg 45009
- Barnwell 45011
- Beaufort 45013
- Berkeley 45015
- Calhoun 45017
- Charleston 45019
- Cherokee 45021
- Colleton 45029
- Dorchester 45035
- Fairfield 45039
- Florence 45041
- Georgetown 45043
- Greenville 45045
- Greenwood 45047
- Hampton 45049
- Jasper 45053
- Kershaw 45055
- Lancaster 45057
- Laurens 45059
- Lexington 45063
- Marion 45067
- McCormick 45065
- Newberry 45071
- Oconee 45073
- Orangeburg 45075
- Pickens 45077
- Richland 45079
- Saluda 45081
- Spartanburg 45083
- Sumter 45085
- Union 45087
- Williamsburg 45089
- York 45091
Tennessee view state ↗ 1 N ▾
Virginia view state ↗ 21 N ▾
- Albemarle 51003
- Alleghany 51005
- Amelia 51007
- Bath 51017
- Bedford 51019
- Botetourt 51023
- Brunswick 51025
- Buckingham 51029
- Carroll 51035
- Dinwiddie 51053
- Fairfax 51059
- Floyd 51063
- Grayson 51077
- Greensville 51081
- Lee 51105
- Mecklenburg 51117
- Pittsylvania 51143
- Prince Edward 51147
- Pulaski 51155
- Rockbridge 51163
- Wythe 51197
§5Sources & provenance
USDA PLANTS
Symbol, taxonomy, distribution, cultivation specs, native status. Public domain.
plants.usda.gov/PHCA19 ↗GBIF Backbone
Canonical taxonomic identity, synonym resolution, cross-refs. CC0.
gbif.org/species/2927756 ↗Record version
Cached and built locally. Source version on this record:
usda-plants-mt-2026-05-26
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