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2. Phlox longifolia Nutt. Long-leaved Phlox. Fig. 3912. 



Phlox longifolia Nutt. Journ. Acad. Phila. 7: 41. 1834. 



Phlox speciosa var. linearifolia Hook. Kew Journ. Bot. 3: 289. 1851. 



Phlox speciosa var. latifolia Hook. loc. cit. 



Armeria longifolia Kuntze, Rev. Gen. PI. 2: 432. 1891. 



Phlox colubrina Wherry & Constance, Amer. Midi. Nat. 19: 433. figs. 1, 2. 1938. 



Stems 1— I dm. long, usually erect, sometimes spreading or decumbent, woody below, much- 

 branched to nearly simple, rather sparsely and finely pubescent above. Leaves narrowly hnear- 

 lanceolate to narrowly linear, from 5-10 cm. long, 1.5-3 mm. wide, firm, short-acuminate but 

 not pungent; cymes open, few- to many-flowered; pedicels slender, 1-3 cm. long: calyx 10-12 

 mm long the lobes about half as long as the tube, the sinus-membrane broad and conspicu- 

 ously inflated; corolla white to lilac, tube 12-18 mm. long, limb 15-20 mm. broad, lobes spatu- 

 late-obovate to narrowly obovate, rounded or shallowly notched; styles about as long or a 

 little longer than the corolla-tube. 



Dry slopes and edges of mountain meadows, Arid Transition Zone; eastern base of the Cascades, Washing- 

 ton to northern Oregon, east to Montana and Colorado. Type locality: "valleys of the Rocky Mountains gener- 

 ally." May-July. 



Phlox longifolia subsp. compacta (Brand) Wherry, Proc. Acad. Phila. 90: 135. 1938 (Phlox Stansburyi 

 subsp. compacta Brand, Pflanzenreich 4=^: 67. 1907; P. puberula A. Nels. in Coult. & Nels. Man Bot. Rocky 

 Mts 397 1909.) Dwarf and compactly branched, mostly 6-10 cm. rarely over 15 cm. high, densely glandular- 

 villous, except at base, with short hairs; leaves 2-4 cm. long and 2-3 mm. wide; corolla-lobes usually a little 

 shorter than in the typical species. Sagebrush slopes, Klickitat County, southern Washington, and Wasco County 

 Oregon, southeast of the Cascades to northeastern California and Nevada, east to Idaho. Type locality: not 

 given. 



Phlox longifolia subsp. humilis (Dougl.) Wherry, Proc. Acad. Phila. 90:135. 1938. (Phlox humilis 

 Dougl ex Hook. Fl. Bor. Amer. 2:72. 1840.) Low and often compact as in the preceding subspecies, but 

 the stems and leaves glabrous or more or less thinly short-villous and little or not at all glandular; pedicels and 

 calyx short-villous. Eastern Washington and Oregon to Idaho. Type locality: "Rocky Mountains near perpetual 

 snow, and on the Blue Mountains." 



Phlox longifolia subsp. 16ngipes (M. E. Jones) Wherry, Proc. Acad. Phila. 90:135. .1938. (Phlox 

 linearifolia var. longipes M. E. Jones, Contr. West. Bot. No. 12: 53. 1908.) Similar to the typical species but 

 the inflorescence glandular-pubescent throughout. Wallowa Mountains, northeastern Oregon, to the Rocky 

 Mountains. Type locality: "Weiser, Idaho." 



Phlox longifolia subsp. calva Wherry, Proc. Acad. Phila. 90: 136. 1938. Plants 1-5 dm. high, glabrous 

 throughout except in the inner side of the calyx-lobes; longer leaves, 4.5-9 cm. long. Washington and northern 

 Oregon east of the Cascades, east to Montana and Colorado. Type locality: 'Darlington, Custer County, Idaho. 



Phlox longifolia subsp. brevifolia (A. Gray) H. L. Mason. (Phlox longifolia f. brevifolia A. Gray, 

 Proc Amer Acad. 8:255. 1870; P. Stansburyi var. brevifolia E. Nels. Rev. W.N. Amer. Phloxes 27. 1899; 

 P Grayi Woot. & Standley, Contr. U.S. Nat. Herb. 16: 161. 1913.) Plants compact, 5-10 cm. high, rather 

 densely glandular-villous, with short spreading hairs; leaves linear-lanceolate, 0.5-3 cm. long, the lower usually 

 narrowly lanceolate to linear-lanceolate, and usually shorter than the lanceolate or narrowly lanceolate, sparsely 

 attenuate upper all firm with prominent midrib and calloused margins, thinly glandular-puberulent. Sagebrush 

 slopes and plains. Arid Transition and Upper Sonoran Zones; east of the Sierra Nevada, California, from 

 Lassen Countv to the Kingston Mountains, San Bernardino County, east to Utah and New Mexico. Type 

 locality: "chiefly in the southern districts [Utah and Nevada], and extending into New Mexico and Arizona. 



3. Phlox Stansburyi (Torr.) Heller. Stansbury's Phlox. Fig. 3913. 



Phlox speciosa var. ? Stansburyi Torr. Bot. Mex. Bound. 145. 1859. 

 Phlox Stansburyi Heller, Bull. Torrey Club 24: 478. 1897. 

 Phlox longituba Heller, Muhlenbergia 2: 228. 1905. 



Stems few to several from the simple or branched root crown, 1-4 cm. high, more or less 

 densely woolly pubescent throughout, especially above the middle, and glandular above. Leaves 

 grayish green, linear-lanceolate, 1.5-3 cm. long, attenuate at apex, often scabrous, the upper 

 glandular-tomentose ; flowers several in simple or branched cymose clusters ; pedicels 5-25 mm. 

 long; calvx 7-10 mm. long, glandular-villous, the lobes subulate, distinctly shorter than the tube, 

 scarious intervals of the tube often carinate before being distended by the growing capsule; 

 corolla 2-2.5 cm. long, usually pink and white, limb 10-15 mm. broad, lobes oblong-spatulate ; 

 style and stigma-lobes very slender over half the length of the corolla-tube. 



Drv gravelly slopes. Upper Sonoran and Arid Transition Zones; eastern slopes of the Sierra Nevada, Inyo 

 County,' east to New Mexico. Type locality: "Gravelly hills near the Organ Mountains, New Mexico. April- 

 June. 



Phlox hirsvita E. Nels. Rev. W.N. Amer. Phloxes 28. 1899. (Phlox Stansburyi var. hirsuta Jepson, Fl. 

 Calif. 3: 141. 1943.) Stems usually several from the stout woody base, 10-15 cm. high, simple or with a few 

 terminal cvmose branches, hirsute throughout. Leaves ovate-lanceolate to linear-lanceolate, mostly 2-3 cm. long, 

 attenuate at apex, firm, rather thinly villous and minutely granular on the thickened margins; flowers usually 

 3 or 4 at the ends of the branches, short-pedicelled to subsessile; calyx 12-14 ram. long, the tube conspicuously 

 villous-hirsute, membranous sinuses narrow not carinate; corolla-tube equaling or slightly exceeding the calyx, 

 limb about 15 mm. broad, lobes cuneate-obovate; style 4 mm. long; ovules solitary in each cell. Dry hillsides; 

 known only from dry hillsides near Yreka, and Mill Creek near Etna Mills, Siskiyou County, California. 



4. Phlox dolichantha A. Gray. Bear Valley Phlox. Fig. 3914. 



Phlox dolichantha A. Gray, Proc. Amer. Acad. 22: 310. 1887. 

 Phlox bcrnardina Munz & Jtn. Bull. Torrey Club 49: 356. 1922. 

 Phlox dolichantha var. bernardina Jepson, Fl. Calif. 3: 141. 1943. 



Stems from a rather slender woody root, erect or ascending, 15-25 cm. high, glabrous or 

 sparingly villous with short kinky hairs below, glandular-puberulent above. Leaves narrowly 

 lanceolate-attenuate, 2-5 cm. long or in secondary branchlets shorter, sometimes slightly falcate, 

 midvein slender and margins only slightly thickened, lower nearly glabrous, upper glandular- 

 pubescent ; flowers in a several-flowered cymose cluster at the end of the branches ; pedicels 



