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Phlox tenuifolia

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Straggling shrublet 25-75cm high. Leaves linear to lanceolate or narrowly elliptic, 2.5-4.5cm long. Flowers about 1.8cm across, the petals oblanceolate, erose or shallowly notched, white to cream, occasionally lavender-tinted, spring, sometimes sporadically to autumn. Arizona - mainly south-west, on dry stony slopes amongst scrub at 500-1500m.