Phlox

From Ancient Greek φλόξ (phlóx, “flame”).

Phlox f

1. A taxonomic genus within the family Polemoniaceae.

• (genus): Eukaryota – superkingdom; Plantae – kingdom; Viridiplantae – subkingdom; Streptophyta – infrakingdom; Embryophyta – superphylum; Tracheophyta – phylum; Spermatophytina – subphylum; angiosperms, eudicots, core eudicots, asterids – clades; Ericales – order; Polemoniaceae – family; Polemonioideae - subfamily; Phlocideae - tribe

• (genus): Phlox glaberrima - type species

• Phlox on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Phlox on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
• Category:Phlox on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons
• Phlox at USDA Plants database
• Phlox at Integrated Taxonomic Information System.
• Phlox at National Center for Biotechnology Information
• Phlox at Tropicos
• Phlox at The Plant List

Borrowed from translingual Phlox.

• IPA^(key): /flɔks/

Phlox m (strong, genitive Phloxes, plural Phloxe)
Phlox f (genitive Phlox, plural Phloxe)

1. phlox (plant of the genus Phlox)

   Synonym: Flammenblume

   • 1910, Rainer Maria Rilke, Die Aufzeichnungen des Malte Laurids Brigge [The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge]‎^[1]; republished as John Linton, transl., The Journal of my other Self, 1930:

     Mädchen in meiner Heimat. Daß die schönste von euch im Sommer an einem Nachmittag in der verdunkelten Bibliothek sich das kleine Buch fände, das Jan des Tournes 1556 gedruckt hat. Daß sie den kühlenden, glatten Band mitnähme hinaus in den summenden Obstgarten oder hinüber zum Phlox, in dessen übersüßtem Duft ein Bodensatz schierer Süßigkeit steht.

     Girls in my native land! May the loveliest of you on an afternoon in summer find in the dim library the little book that Jean de Tournes printed in 1556. May she take the cool, smooth volume out with her into the murmurous orchard, or to the phlox beyond, in whose over-luscious perfume hangs an essence of sheer sweetness.

• “Phlox” in Duden online
• “Phlox” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
• Flammenblumen on the German Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^de