Index / Search / Phlox nivalis
§1 Plant
Phlox nivalis Lodd. ex Sweet
vernacular trailing phlox — species · Polemoniaceae
§2Habit & range
Habit and range
- Growth habit
- Forb/herb, Subshrub
- Duration
- Perennial
- Group
- Dicot
- Family
- Polemoniaceae Juss.
- Genus
- Phlox
§2a
Native status, by region
- L48 Lower 48 States Native
§2b
County-level range
· 117 counties across 7 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 117 counties across 7 states/territories.
Alabama view state ↗ 4 N ▾
Florida view state ↗ 21 N ▾
Georgia view state ↗ 21 N ▾
Michigan view state ↗ 1 N ▾
North Carolina view state ↗ 46 N ▾
- Alamance 37001
- Alexander 37003
- Anson 37007
- Bladen 37017
- Brunswick 37019
- Buncombe 37021
- Burke 37023
- Cabarrus 37025
- Caswell 37033
- Catawba 37035
- Chatham 37037
- Cherokee 37039
- Cleveland 37045
- Columbus 37047
- Cumberland 37051
- Davidson 37057
- Durham 37063
- Forsyth 37067
- Franklin 37069
- Gaston 37071
- Granville 37077
- Guilford 37081
- Harnett 37085
- Hoke 37093
- Iredell 37097
- Jackson 37099
- Johnston 37101
- Lee 37105
- Lincoln 37109
- Mecklenburg 37119
- Montgomery 37123
- Moore 37125
- Nash 37127
- Orange 37135
- Person 37145
- Randolph 37151
- Richmond 37153
- Robeson 37155
- Rowan 37159
- Rutherford 37161
- Sampson 37163
- Scotland 37165
- Stanly 37167
- Union 37179
- Wake 37183
- Wilson 37195
South Carolina view state ↗ 18 N ▾
§5Sources & provenance
USDA PLANTS
Symbol, taxonomy, distribution, cultivation specs, native status. Public domain.
plants.usda.gov/PHNI ↗GBIF Backbone
Canonical taxonomic identity, synonym resolution, cross-refs. CC0.
gbif.org/species/2927699 ↗Record version
Cached and built locally. Source version on this record:
usda-plants-mt-2026-05-26
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