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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 balduinii   FAMILY Polygalaceae   Go to FSUS key



INCLUDED WITHIN PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Polygala balduinii   FAMILY Polygalaceae

INCLUDED WITHIN Flora of North America north of Mexico, vol. 10 (2021)

Polygala balduinii

INCLUDED WITHIN Floristic Synthesis of North America. BONAP (Kartesz, 2021)

Polygala balduinii

INCLUDED WITHIN Floristic Synthesis of North America (Kartesz, 1999)

Polygala balduinii

SYNONYMOUS WITH Aquatic & Wetland Plants of Southeastern US (Godfrey & Wooten, 1979 & 1981)

Polygala balduinii var. balduinii

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

Pilostaxis baldwinii

SYNONYMOUS WITH -

Polygala baldwinii

SYNONYMOUS WITH -

Pylostachya balduinii

 

COMMON NAME:
White Milkwort, Baldwin's Milkwort


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image of Polygala balduinii, White Milkwort, Baldwin's Milkwort

Keith Bradley    kab_p_baldwinii_02251

April    Miami-Dade County    FL

Everglades National Park

Inflorescence a terminal, many-branched cyme, loosely to densely flowered, per Weakley's Flora (2015).

 

 

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

INCLUDED WITHIN PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Polygala balduinii   FAMILY Polygalaceae

INCLUDED WITHIN Flora of North America north of Mexico, vol. 10
Polygala balduinii

INCLUDED WITHIN Floristic Synthesis of North America. BONAP (Kartesz, 2021)
Polygala balduinii

INCLUDED WITHIN Floristic Synthesis of North America (Kartesz, 1999)
Polygala balduinii

SYNONYMOUS WITH Aquatic & Wetland Plants of Southeastern US (Godfrey & Wooten, 1979 & 1981)
Polygala balduinii var. balduinii

SYNONYMOUS WITH (ORTHOGRAPHIC VARIANT) Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Pilostaxis baldwinii

SYNONYMOUS WITH -
Polygala baldwinii

SYNONYMOUS WITH -
Pylostachya balduinii

 

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4115

Forb
Annual/Biennial?

Habitat: Wet pine savannas, marl prairies, interdune swales, per Weakley's Flora

Native to Georgia

Rare

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LEAVES:
Simple

FLOWER:
Winter/Spring/Summer/Fall
Creamy-white to greenish-white
Bilaterally symmetrical
5 sepals (three small, two larger petaloid "wings")
3 petals united into a tube
Bisexual

Inflorescence a terminal, many-branched cyme

FRUIT:
Winter/Spring/Summer/Fall
Capsule

 

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