Native Perennial
Sun Exposure: Shade, Partial Shade
Soil Moisture: Medium-Wet, Medium, Medium-Dry
Height: 12 inch
Bloom Time: April-June
Bloom Color: Blue, purple, lavender
Tolerance: Deer are uninterested and Drought
Attracts: butterflies, including swallowtails, gray hairstreaks, and western pygmy blues.
Pollinator Benefit: good spring nectar source
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Woodland Phlox (Phlox divaricata) The shade loving Woodland Phlox is a lovely way to welcome spring with its fragrant light purple to violet-blue, rosy lavender flowers! It attracts the early spring pollinators and is slow to spread which makes it easy to manage growth. Phlox can grow well in shade or partial shade and medium to drier soils. Wild Blue Phlox is rhizomatous and will spread slowly but steadily.
The flowers, atop sticky stems, are slightly fragrant and range in color from pale blue to lavender to violet. Deer seem to have little interest in Phlox, but rabbits especially like Wild Blue.
Info from www.prairiemoon.com and www.wildflowers.com