The late summer flowers can be bright and cheery like the spring flowers since the summer flowers are not all just the whites, yellows and oranges but purples and pinks also shine. These phlox shined so much that I spotted them deep in the wild raspberry briars, standing tall and waving gently in the breeze so I would notice them. They apparently blew in since I didn’t plant any and I sure wouldn’t have planted them in the briars. I ended up mowing a path through the briars just to get close enough to take their picture.
Phlox, originating mostly in North America, belongs to a genus of 67 species of perennial and annual plants in the family Polemoniaceae. The phlox, like many other species, were collected by European plant explorers trying to be the first to find a unique flower. As an interesting side note, many of the European plant collectors began hybridizing the American species of phlox and Americans would discover them at shows and bring them back to America.
Pretty Phlox
