The genus Phlox is quite variable. In sun, tall garden Phloxes give summer color and compact evergreen mats covered with spring bloom.
Phloxes offer spring color and fragrance in shade.
Flower colors are quite diverse but tend toward pinks, purples and whites. Woodland Phlox Fragrant icy blue flowers cover this native Woodland Phlox. The low billowy blooms are always welcome in the spring woodland garden. This Phlox nestles comfortably beneath shrubs, as well as with other woodland natives, like Eastern Wild Columbine, and forms loose mats of 1-1.5' topped in blue. London Grove Blue' is a fragrant and compact form selected by North Creek Nurseries.