phlox stolonifera

The best part about Phlox stolonifera is that it prefers shade.

The most commonly grown blue-flowered Phlox stolonifera is Blue Ridge, named for the mountains where the plant was discovered.

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Creeping phlox (Phlox stolonifera).

Phlox stolonifera (Creeping Phlox) is a herbaceous perennial plant spreading by stolons, native to woodland in the Appalachian Mountains from Pennsylvania south to northern Georgia.

Another native American wildflower well suited to life in the lower tier is Phlox stolonifera, which the Perennial Plant Association, an organization of nurserymen and academic horticulturists, has just named the perennial of 1990.

At the top of the list would be the phlox of the woodland, particularly Phlox stolonifera with its mats of leaves and springtime spikes of glorious flowers: Blue Ridge, Bruce's White, Pink Ridge or combinations of all three.

He continued on to the Piedmont region of the Appalachians, discovering Phlox stolonifera (Creeping Phlox) in Georgia along the southeastern edge of the southern Blue Ridge, and in 1787 arrived in Pickens County near Cherokee land during the Chickamauga Wars.