blue phlox

noun

1. a plant, Phlox divaricata, of eastern North America, having creeping, rooting stems and mauve flowers.

Example Sentences

The team has also put together a publicly available list of 24 commonly sold invasive plants that could increase in risk with climate change in the northeast, from butterfly bush to English ivy, to be avoided and native alternatives, such as bottlebrush buckeye and wild blue phlox.

From Science Daily

If you want ground covers in the plant bed, various ferns, sedges, foamflower, creeping and wild blue phlox, and wood asters would make great complementary native perennials.

From Washington Post

Pink dress, pink shoes, pink toenails and pink lipstick dominate a background of blue phlox and red roses.

From Time Magazine Archive

Over the low fence, the blue phlox, that dainty carpeting of the May woods, shut its starry flowers, and lay close to the ground.

From Project Gutenberg