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The genus Phlox is in the family Polemoniaceae in the major group Angiosperms (Flowering plants).

Statistics are at the end of the page.

Species in Phlox

See "Status", "Confidence level", "Source" for definitions.

Name	Status	Confi­dence level	Source
Phlox drummondii Hook.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Phlox gladiformis (M.E. Jones) E.E. Nelson	Accepted		TRO
Phlox hendersonii (E.E. Nelson) Cronquist	Accepted		TRO
Phlox linearifolia (Hook.) A. Gray	Accepted		TRO
Phlox lutescens (S.L. Welsh) S.L. Welsh	Accepted		TRO
Phlox maculata L.	Accepted		TRO
Phlox nana Nutt.	Accepted		TRO
Phlox paniculata L.	Accepted		TRO
Phlox pattersonii Prather	Accepted		TRO
Phlox pilosa L.	Accepted		TRO
Phlox pulcherrima (Lundell) Lundell	Accepted		TRO
Phlox stansburyi (Torr.) A. Heller	Accepted		TRO
Phlox subulata L.	Accepted		TRO
Phlox suksdorfii (Brand) H. St. John	Accepted		TRO
Phlox tenuis (A. Gray) E.E. Nelson	Accepted		TRO
Phlox texensis (Lundell) Lundell	Accepted		TRO
Phlox walteri (A. Gray) Chapm.	Accepted		TRO
Phlox woodhousei (A. Gray) E.E. Nelson	Accepted		TRO

Statistics

The Plant List includes 256 scientific plant names of species rank for the genus Phlox. Of these 18 are accepted species names.

The Plant List includes a further 106 scientific plant names of infraspecific rank for the genus Phlox. We do not intend The Plant List to be complete for names of infraspecific rank. These are primarily included because names of species rank are synonyms of accepted infraspecific names.

Species names

The status of the 256 species names for the genus Phlox recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	18	7.0%
◕	Synonym	39	15.2%
◕	Unplaced	0	0%
◕	Unassessed	199	77.7%

All names

The status of the 362 names (including infraspecific names) for the genus Phlox recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	32	8.8%
◕	Synonym	93	25.7%
◕	Unplaced	0	0%
◕	Unassessed	237	65.5%

The confidence with which the status of the 256 species names recorded in The Plant List for the genus Phlox, are assigned as follows:

	Confidence level	Accepted	Synonym	Unplaced	Unassessed	Total
	High confidence	0	0	0	0	0	0%
	Medium confidence	18	38	0	0	56	21.9%
	Low confidence	0	1	0	199	200	78.1%

The source of the species name record found in The Plant List for the genus Phlox, are as follows: