Alternate name: Annual Phlox, Drummond's Phlox

Family: Polemoniaceae, Phlox view all from this family

Description A much-branched, sticky-glandular plant with bright rose-red, pink, or white flowers in tight clusters at the ends of stems.
Flowers: 1" (2.5 cm) wide; corolla trumpet-shaped, with 5 spreading lobes; stamens 5, short.
Leaves: 1-3" (2.5-7.5 cm) long; ovate to lanceolate, alternate rather than opposite as in most Phlox.
Height: 8-18" (20-45 cm).

Flower April-July.

Habitat Waste places, fields.

Range North and South Carolina south to Florida; west to Texas.

Discussion This southern flower of roadsides and fields escaped from cultivation. The species is named for Thomas Drummond, who sent seeds from Texas to England in 1835.