Crossword clues for phlox
phlox
- Perennial flower
- Colorful flowers
- Popular perennial
- Butterfly-attracting flower
- Butterfly attractor
- Some purple blooms
- Rock garden favorite
- Plant from the Greek for "flame"
- Plant family that includes Jacob's-ladder
- Plant family that includes Jacob's ladder
- Jacob's-ladder, e.g
- Flower whose name is Greek for "flame"
- Flower that means "flame"
- Colorful delicacy for a groundhog
- Color similar to dahlia purple
- Bloom that rhymes with "rocks"
- Jacob's-ladder, for one
- Showy flowers
- Flower known to attract butterflies
- Chiefly North American
- Cultivated for their clusters of flowers
- Any polemoniaceous plant of the genus Phlox
- Showy plant
- Kin of Jacob's ladder
- Variegated flowers
- Flowering plant groups of sheep or birds picked up
- Spring flower
- Garden flowers
- Showy bloom
- Garden bloom
- Ornamental flower
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Phlox \Phlox\, n. [L., a kind of flower, fr. Gr. ? flame, fr. ? to burn.] (Bot.) A genus of American herbs, having showy red, white, or purple flowers.
Phlox worm (Zo["o]l.), the larva of an American moth ( Heliothis phloxiphaga). It is destructive to phloxes.
Phlox subulata, the moss pink. See under Moss.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1706, from Latin, where it was the name of a flower (Pliny), from Greek phlox "kind of plant with showy flowers" (probably Silene vulgaris), literally "flame," related to phlegein "to burn" (see bleach (v.)). Applied to the North American flowering plant by German botanist Johann Jakob Dillenius (1684-1747).
Wiktionary
n. Any flowering plant of the genus ''Phlox''.
WordNet
n. any polemoniaceous plant of the genus Phlox; chiefly North American; cultivated for their clusters of flowers
Wikipedia
Phlox (; Greek φλόξ "flame"; plural "phlox" or "phloxes", Greek φλόγες phlóges) is a genus of 67 species of perennial and annual plants in the family Polemoniaceae. They are found mostly in North America (one in Siberia) in diverse habitats from alpine tundra to open woodland and prairie. Some flower in spring, others in summer and fall. Flowers may be pale blue, violet, pink, bright red, or white. Many are fragrant.
Fertilized flowers typically produce one relatively large seed. The fruit is a longitudinally dehiscent capsule with three or more valves that sometimes separate explosively.
Some species such as P. paniculata (garden phlox) grow upright, while others such as P. subulata (moss phlox, moss pink, mountain phlox) grow short and matlike.
The foliage of Phlox is a food for the larvae of some Lepidoptera species including dot moth, Gazoryctra wielgusi, hummingbird hawk-moth and Schinia indiana (which feeds exclusively on P. pilosa). Phlox species are also a popular food source for groundhogs, rabbits and deer.
Phlox is a fictional character in the television series Star Trek: Enterprise, played by John Billingsley.
Dr. Phlox is the chief medical officer aboard the starship Enterprise.
Phlox is a genus of flowering plants.
The term may also refer to:
-
, a Union gunboat during the American Civil War
- Phlox (Star Trek), a fictional character
- Phlox, Indiana, an unincorporated place in the United States
- Phlox, Wisconsin, an unincorporated place in the United States
Usage examples of "phlox".
Ononis rotundifolia, Onosma taurica, Ourisia coccinea, Pentstemons, Phlox, Physalis Alkekengi, Polygonum Brunonis, P.
Russelliana, Ononis rotundifolia, Onosma taurica, Origanum pulchellum, Ourisia coccinea, Phlox, Physalis Alkekengi, Polygonum Brunonis, P.
Erysimum pumilum, Gynerium argenteum, Helianthus orygalis, Lactuca sonchifolia, Lilium auratum, Lobelia cardinalis, Onosma taurica, Origanum pulchellum, Phlox, Physalis Alkekengi, Polygonum Brunonis, P.
Phlox had removed all of the larger items, and from what Cutler could tell, the sores were healing well, almost without scars.
Phlox managed to avoid the same fate, just as Ensigns Cutler and Mayweather did.
He no longer wished to cultivate the image of a sweet chap passionately interested in nothing except phlox, asters, freesias and gardenias.
This would allow the Phlox to have the full light, and the arrangement would be suitable for the edge of a shrubbery or border of herbaceous plants, or even along the walks of a kitchen garden.
Now violet plumes of liatris sprang up around the chapel door beside unruly masses of sweet-smelling phlox and glowing clouds of asters.
Narcissus minor, Omphalodes verna, Orobus vernus, Phlox frondosa, Polyanthus, Primula acaulis, P.
On close inspection of the grass, however, she could identify multi-colored phloxes and spiderworts, intermixed with shooting stars and violets.
Erysimum pumilum, Gynerium argenteum, Helianthus orygalis, Lactuca sonchifolia, Lilium auratum, Lobelia cardinalis, Onosma taurica, Origanum pulchellum, Phlox, Physalis Alkekengi, Polygonum Brunonis, P.
At first, nearer the house, there were roses and bougainvillaea, poinsettia and banks of phlox, that formed bright bold slashes of colour, against a veld still brown from the long dry winter just passed, but nearer the stream the fields of maize were tended by convalescents from the mission clinic, and soon on the tall green plants the immature cobs would begin to set.
Notwithstanding their dead appearance in winter, a capital suggestion occurred to me by an accidental mixture of croci with the Phlox.
No, strike that, the Silurian grayfish Phlox had swimming in his tank down in sickbay could do a better job.
Russelliana, Ononis rotundifolia, Onosma taurica, Origanum pulchellum, Ourisia coccinea, Phlox, Physalis Alkekengi, Polygonum Brunonis, P.