Dig deeper at SERNEC, a consortium of southeastern herbaria.
Formerly named G. volubilis in most references, including most recent ones. Read more at Vascular Plants of North Carolina.
Galactia regularis is the species widespread across the eastern USA with twining stems, broadly elliptic leaflets, and relatively small flowers per Taxonomy of Galactia (Fabaceae) in the USA (Nesom, 2015).
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Spermatophytes (seed plants): Angiosperms (flowering plants): Eudicots: Core Eudicots: Rosids: Fabids: Fabales
WEAKLEY'S FLORA (2/8/20):
Galactia regularis
FAMILY
Fabaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH (MISAPPLIED)
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Galactia volubilis
FAMILY
Fabaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Keys to the flora of Florida, Galactia (Leguminosae) (Ward & Hall, 2004)
Galactia regularis
SYNONYMOUS WITH (MISAPPLIED)
Native & naturalized Leguminosae (Fabaceae) of the US (Isely, 1998)
Galactia volubilis
INCLUDING
VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 098-50-005&006:
Galactia volubilis
FAMILY
Fabaceae
INCLUDING
Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968)
Galactia macreei
SYNONYMOUS WITH (MISAPPLIED)
Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933)
Galactia volubilis
COMMON NAME:
Downy Milkpea, Hairy Milkpea, Twining Milkpea, Eastern Milkpea
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Look for it in dry forests and woodlands, per Weakley's Flora
Herbaceous vine, climbing or sprawling, twining
Perennial
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
Documented growing wild in
GA
NC
SC
Common
DOES THE PLANT HAVE "MILKY SAP"?
Does not have milky sap
LEAVES:
Odd-pinnately compound: 3 leaflets
Mostly alternate
Leaflets have petiolules.
Leaflets are subtended by stipels.
FLOWER:
Summer/Fall
Pink
Bilaterally symmetrical
4-lobed calyx
5-parted papilionaceous corolla
Superior ovary
FRUIT:
Summer/Fall
Legume
TO LEARN MORE about this plant, look it up in a good book!
- Forest Plants of the Southeast and Their Wildlife Uses p080
- Newcomb's Wildflower Guide p110
- Wildflowers of the Carolina Lowcountry p171
- Wildflowers of the Eastern United States p039?
- Wildflowers of Tennessee p133?
- Wildflowers of Tennessee, the Ohio Valley, and the Southern Appalachians p171?
- Wildflowers of the Southern Mountains p078-79?
- Wildflowers of the Sandhills Region p078
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