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Phlox multiflora
Also called Rocky Mountain Phlox, Many Flowered Phlox, Yellowstone Phlox
Phlox multiflora, the Rocky Mountain phlox, is a low growing perennial plant native to the Rocky Mountains and parts of the Great Basin in western North America. It has white to lavender flowers.
Rocky Mountain phlox is native to eight western US states. It grows in north-central New Mexico, but the NRCS only records it in Mora County. It is widespread in western Colorado with more records in the central north and another concentration in the central mountains. In Wyoming it is found in every county in the western two-thirds of the state. Plants are mostly in the southwestern mountain counties of Montana, but there are also records of its in Flathead County in the north. The range in Idaho is in the northeastern mountains and the eastern part of the state, but though native to Oregon it is only recorded in Union County in the northeast. It is known from five northern Utah counties, Box Elder, Rich, Summit, Daggett, and Uintah. To the west it is only found in as a disjunct population in the Jarbidge Mountains in Elko County, Nevada.
In the traditional medicine of the Cheyenne, as recorded by George Bird Grinnell and his collaborators, Rocky Mountain phlox is used as a mild stimulant. The leaves and flowers are infused into warm water after being pulverized. The liquid is then rubbed into the body of a person experiencing numbness and a small amount might be taken as a tea.
Slender phlox · Northern phlox · Alyssumleaf phlox · Hairy phlox · Mountain phlox · Cleft phlox · Swordleaf phlox · Tufted phlox · Thickleaf phlox · Dwarf phlox · Pointed phlox · Spreading phlox
Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Phlox multiflora by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts are shared under the same licence.
Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.
