| Name | Phlox acerba A. Nelson |
| Authorship | A. Nelson |
| Rank | Species |
| NomenclaturalStatus | NomLeg |
| Placed in | Phlox Linnaeus |
| GUID | urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:193335-2 |
| Citation | 1938 Amer. J. Bot. 25: 114 |
| Holdings | 1 Specimen held in the Harvard University Herbaria identified as Phlox acerba A. Nelson |
| Identification made in | [no date] (1) |