Phlox family
Polemoniaceae
Gil’li-a. A genus of nearly 30 species of herbs, most from the w. U.S., a few rather showy garden flowers.
Description
Leaves alternate or opposite, usually without marginal teeth, sometimes dissected or divided. Flowers varied, mostly in clusters. Corolla more or less bell- or funnel-shaped, the stamens attached to the tube of the corolla.
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Phlox family
Polemoniaceae
Flocks . About 60 species of usually hardy herbs found mostly in North America.
Description
Leaves lance-shaped, opposite and in pairs, or alternate. Flowers showy, in loose or closely packed terminal clusters, ranging from white to red, pale lilac, or purple, the corolla tube usually having an eyelike marking at the opening. Calyx of 5 sepals united halfway down. Corolla of 5 united petals forming a short, narrow tube. Stamens 5, usually enclosed in the corolla tube.
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Phlox family
Polemoniaceae
Ko-bee’a. Tendril-climbing, tropical American woody vines, the species below quick growing and showy.
Description
Leaves alternate, compound, the leaflets arranged feather-fashion, the terminal one replaced by a branched tendril. Flowers solitary, on long stalks from the leaf axils. Corolla bell-shaped or cylindric, its limb 5-lobed.
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Phlox family
Polemoniaceae
Ip-po-mop’sis. Herbs mostly native in w. North America, with one species in Argentina.
Description
Leaves to 2 in. (5 cm) long, dissected into linear segments, on erect stems. Corolla generally tubular; calyx 5-lobed.
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