262 — Number of the plant
at the book: The Mother. The Spiritual Significance of Flowers.- 1-st Ed. / Sri Aurobindo Ashram Trust, Pondicherry (India).- Singapore: Ho Printing, 2000.- ISBN 81-7058-609-7
Classification
► Division Magnoliophyta - Flowering plants
► Class Magnoliopsida - Dicotyledons
► Subclass Asteridae
► Order Solanales
► Family Polemoniaceae - Phlox family
► Subfamily Polemonioideae
► Genus Phlox L. - Phlox
Synonyms
Phlox johnstonii Wherry [≡ Phlox drummondii subsp. johnstonii]
Phlox mcallisterii Whitehouse [≡ Phlox drummondii subsp. mcallisterii]
Phlox tharpii Whitehouse [≡ Phlox drummondii subsp. tharpii]
Phlox wilcoxiana Bogusch [≡ Phlox drummondii subsp. wilcoxiana]
Common names
Annual phlox (English)
Drummond's phlox (English)
Pride-of-Texas (English)
Star phlox (English)
Phlox (French)
Флокс (Russian)
Description
Small salverform flowers with a narrow tube and a flattened limb divided into five broad slightly overlapping lobes; in white, pale yellow and shades of red, pink and purple; borne in dense terminal clusters. A long-flowering garden annual.
Yoga, says the Gita, is skill in works, and by this phrase the ancient Scripture meant that the transformation of mind and being to which it gave the name of Yoga brought with it a perfect inner state and faculty out of which the right principle of action and the right spiritual and divine result of works emerged naturally like a tree out of its seed.
Sri Aurobindo. Sri Aurobindo Birth Centenary Library in 30 Volumes. - Volume 16. - The Supramental Manifestation
