Creeping Phlox is a charming, native groundcover that blankets garden spaces in delicate clusters of lavender-purple blooms from midsummer into early fall. Its low-growing, mat-forming habit is ideal for naturalizing, rock gardens, or the front of borders. It thrives in full sun to part shade. This resilient perennial tolerates deer, rabbits, drought, and air pollution, while spreading via stolons to form lush colonies with minimal maintenance.