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Plant Identification => Plant Identification Questions and Answers => Topic started by: Gerdk on May 09, 2019, 06:55:02 PM

Title: Phlox identification
Post by: Gerdk on May 09, 2019, 06:55:02 PM

I received this Phlox decades ago from my late friend Bernd Wetzel.
Unfortunately the plant was never identified.
When I remember well the species was collected either in Western Canada or
in the Western States of the US.
I would be glad if there will be some help from someone who is more familiar with
the Phlox family than I am.

Gerd

Title: Re: Phlox identification
Post by: Will Itsell on May 09, 2019, 07:29:58 PM

Looks very like 'Kelly's Eye' to me.

Title: Re: Phlox identification
Post by: Maggi Young on May 09, 2019, 07:32:55 PM

Phlox douglasii 'Kelly’s Eye' ?
Photo by Potterton's  Nursery ..looking a  little  pale  ....     www.pottertons.co.uk (http://www.pottertons.co.uk)
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Title: Re: Phlox identification
Post by: Gerdk on May 10, 2019, 07:51:03 AM

Thank you Maggi & Will,

Kelly's Eye seems very likely. I also noted the similarity but I guessed that the plant was found in
the wild and not a cultivar.
So, it might be my friend either gave me the cultivar mentioned or he found this variation occuring naturally.


Anyway Phlox douglasii seems to be correct!


Gerd