title: Phlox tenuifolia
text: # Phlox tenuifolia
  
  Phlox tenuifolia, the Santa Catalina Mountain phlox, is a white flowered plant in the phlox family (Polemoniaceae) that can be found with stems climbing through shrubs and other vegetation growing on rocky slopes of the Sonoran Desert in $Arizona.^{:65}$ Botanist Richard Spellenberg has described its floral displays over supporting vegetation as $"spectacular".^{:65}$
  
  