Phlox is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 17 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 18 points.
You can make 37 anagrams from letters in phlox (hlopx).
1595-1605; Medieval Latin, special use of Latin phlox Greek phlóx a flame-colored plant, literally, flame. See phlegm, Examples for phlox
This is the zone of rhododendron, shushula, phlox, and painted brush. To phlox, the novelist, she was always conscientiously brilliant. She was flying near a piazza where there were some phlox plants. phlox Drummondii is an old favorite that holds its own against any of the new-comers. I have found primroses, phlox, and mertensia on the summit of Long's Peak. On June 10th, carnations, phlox, and Eschscholtzia were in full bloom. This belongs to the Polemoniace family, and is the phlox Cspitosa. A few whiffs of the raw, strong scent of phlox invigorated her. Tall snapdragons and lilies and sweet-williams and phlox in the garden-beds. I have, too, some of the fine varieties of "phlox Drummondi."