My favorite woodland flower just may be the wild blue phlox. Each spring its delicate pale purple flowers composed of five fragile petals welcome me on just about every hike I take into our Loess ...

Each spring as the Ohio woodlands wake up to new growth, one native species of phlox shows up in delightful shades of light blue, purple and, occasionally, white. Woodland phlox or wild blue phlox ...

When you think of phlox, you might picture the 5-foot-tall garden phlox (Phlox paniculata) that graces many a cottage garden. But the genus phlox contains a wide variety of species — some that need ...

This time of the year something magical begins to happen over the eastern two-thirds of the United States and that is the spring arrival of phlox. It will be happening from Texas north to Quebec, ...

CENTERVILLE, Ohio (WDTN) – Wildflowers continue to bloom after the late spring snow on April 20 and 21. Now temperatures will warm into the 80s on Tuesday. The environmental education supervisor with ...

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Editor's note: Once a month, the OSU Extension master gardener's office of Franklin County profiles a plant that occurs naturally in central Ohio. Each spring as the Ohio woodlands wake up to new ...