Smooth phlox (Phlox glaberrima) is an easy-to-grow native perennial that flowers in late spring or early summer. (Courtesy of Gene Bush)
2:40 pm ET -Smooth phlox blooms between the end of creeping woodland phlox of early spring and the start of summer's tall garden phlox.
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