Phlox glaberrima Linnaeus, Species Plantarum 1: 152. 1753.

"Habitat in Virginia." RCN: 1209.

Lectotype (Reveal in Phytologia 71: 477. 1991): Herb. Linn. No. 217.8 (LINN) .

Generitype of Phlox Linnaeus (vide Hitchcock, Prop. Brit. Bot.: 130. 1929).

Current name: Phlox glaberrima L. ( Polemoniaceae).