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Spermatophytes (seed plants): Angiosperms (flowering plants): Eudicots: Core Eudicots: Rosids: Fabids: Fabales

WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/14/23):
 Polygala setacea   FAMILY Polygalaceae   Go to FSUS key

SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Polygala setacea   FAMILY Polygalaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH Flora of North America north of Mexico, vol. 10 (2021)

Polygala setacea

SYNONYMOUS WITH Floristic Synthesis of North America. BONAP (Kartesz, 2021)

Polygala setacea

SYNONYMOUS WITH Floristic Synthesis of North America (Kartesz, 1999)

Polygala setacea

SYNONYMOUS WITH Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)

Polygala setacea

 

COMMON NAME:
 Coastal Plain Milkwort

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WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/14/23):
 Polygala setacea   FAMILY Polygalaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Polygala setacea   FAMILY Polygalaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH Flora of North America north of Mexico, vol. 10
 Polygala setacea

SYNONYMOUS WITH Floristic Synthesis of North America. BONAP (Kartesz, 2021)
 Polygala setacea

SYNONYMOUS WITH Floristic Synthesis of North America (Kartesz, 1999)
 Polygala setacea

SYNONYMOUS WITH Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
 Polygala setacea

 

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3151

Forb
Annual

Habitat: pine flatwoods and bogs, per Weakley's Flora

Native to Georgia

Uncommon

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LEAVES:
Simple - scale-like
Alternate

FLOWER:
Summer
Creamy white
Bilaterally symmetrical
5 sepals (three small, two larger petaloid "wings")
3 petals united into a tube
Bisexual

FRUIT:
Capsule

 

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