Phlox

Description:

Stems much branched,matted,from a subligneous base;lower part covered with marcescent leaves.Leaves flattened,linear lanceolate,acuminate,viscid with gland tipped septate hairs,and ciliate with long hairs.Flowers usually solitary at ends of branches:calyx viscid-pubescent:corolla tube as long as the calyx;limb rotate.up to 3cm across,pink to purplish white,drying mauve or blue.

Habitat:

open stony slopes. North America endemic to Alaska and Yukon north of lat.64degreesN,and eastward to the Richardson mountains west of the Mckenzie Delta.

Notes:

Flora of the Yukon territory National Research council of Canada Revised Edition 2000 ISBN 0-660-18110-X no monograph in wiki for this partcular species