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WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/24/22):
Polygala boykinii var. boykinii
FAMILY
Polygalaceae
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Dig deeper at SERNEC, a consortium of southeastern herbaria.
SYNONYMOUS WITH
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Polygala boykinii var. boykinii
FAMILY
Polygalaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH Floristic Synthesis of North America. BONAP (Kartesz, 2021)
Polygala boykinii var. boykinii
INCLUDED WITHIN Guide to the Vascular Plants of Florida (Wunderlin & Hansen, 2011)
Polygala boykinii
SYNONYMOUS WITH Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Polygala boykinii
COMMON NAME:
Boykin's Milkwort
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Keith Bradley kab_p_boykinii_08432
April Miami-Dade County FL
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Richard and Teresa Ware rtw_polygala_boykinii_12
August
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Richard and Teresa Ware rtw_polygala_boykinii_14
August
Similar to P. senega, but the racemes are longer and narrower, per Wildflowers of Tennessee (Carman, 2005).
WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/24/22):
Polygala boykinii var. boykinii
FAMILY
Polygalaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Polygala boykinii var. boykinii
FAMILY
Polygalaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Floristic Synthesis of North America. BONAP (Kartesz, 2021)
Polygala boykinii var. boykinii
INCLUDED WITHIN
Guide to the Vascular Plants of Florida (Wunderlin & Hansen, 2011)
Polygala boykinii
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Polygala boykinii
3748
Forb
Annual
Habitat: Longleaf pine flatwoods and savannas, seeps, prairies, calcareous glades, per Weakley's Flora
Native to Georgia
Rare
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LEAVES:
Simple
Alternate
FLOWER:
Spring
White
Bisexual
Bilaterally symmetrical
5 sepals (three small, two larger petaloid "wings")
3 petals united into a tube
Flowers in a raceme
FRUIT:
Summer
Capsule
TO LEARN MORE about this plant, look it up in a good book!
- Field Guide to the Wildflowers of Georgia (Chafin, 2016) p285
- Wildflowers of Tennessee (Carman, 2005) p164
- Wildflowers of Tennessee, the Ohio Valley, and the Southern Appalachians (Horn, Cathcart, Hemmerly, & Duhl, 2005) p201