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

WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/24/22):
Polygala incarnata   FAMILY Polygalaceae   Go to FSUS key


SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Polygala incarnata   FAMILY Polygalaceae

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

Polygala incarnata

SYNONYMOUS WITH VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 106-01-013:

Polygala incarnata   FAMILY Polygalaceae

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

Galypola incarnata

 

COMMON NAME:
Pink Milkwort, Procession-flower


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image of Polygala incarnata, Pink Milkwort, Procession-flower

USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / Britton, N.L., and A. Brown. 1913    pnd_poin4_001_lvd

        

image of Polygala incarnata, Pink Milkwort, Procession-flower

Keith Bradley    kab_p_incarnata_08964

April    Collier County    FL

Big Cypress National Preserve

image of Polygala incarnata, Pink Milkwort, Procession-flower

Terry Holdsclaw    tdh_p_incarnata_0748

May    Lincoln County    NC

The corolla is twice as long as the longest sepal, unique among the genus, per Wildflowers of the Eastern United States (Duncan & Duncan, 1999).

image of Polygala incarnata, Pink Milkwort, Procession-flower

Terry Holdsclaw    tdh_p_incarnata_0028

June    Catawba County    NC

image of Polygala incarnata, Pink Milkwort, Procession-flower

Terry Holdsclaw    tdh_p_incarnata_0031

June    Catawba County    NC

image of Polygala incarnata, Pink Milkwort, Procession-flower

Terry Holdsclaw    tdh_p_incarnata_0036b

June    Catawba County    NC

Corolla nearly 3x longer than wings; borne in a slender compact raceme, per Wildflowers of Tennessee, the Ohio Valley, and the Southern Appalachians (Horn, Cathcart, Hemmerly, & Duhl, 2005).

image of Polygala incarnata, Pink Milkwort, Procession-flower

Richard and Teresa Ware    rtw_polygala_incarnata

August        

Common to all milkworts are a 3-petalled corolla tube & 2 "wings" (sepals), per Wildflowers of the Southern Mountains (Smith, 1998).

 

WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/24/22):
Polygala incarnata   FAMILY Polygalaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Polygala incarnata   FAMILY Polygalaceae

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

SYNONYMOUS WITH VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 106-01-013:
Polygala incarnata   FAMILY Polygalaceae

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

 

Find by SCIENTIFIC NAME:

3273

Forb
Annual

Habitat: pine savannas, woodlands, glades, upland dry prairies, fields, per Weakley's Flora

Native to the Carolinas & Georgia

Common (rare in Mountains)

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LEAVES:
Simple
Alternate

FLOWER:
Spring/Summer/Fall
Pinkish
Bisexual
Bilaterally symmetrical
5 sepals (three small, two larger petaloid "wings")
3 petals united into a tube
8 stamens united to corolla tube in 2 rows

FRUIT:
Spring/Summer/Fall
Capsule

 

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