Phlox-family
noun
1.
the plant family Polemoniaceae, characterized by herbaceous or sometimes shrubby plants having simple or compound leaves, flowers with a five-lobed corolla, and capsular fruit, and including gilia, Jacob’s-ladder, moss pink, and phlox.
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