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WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/24/22):
Polygala incarnata
FAMILY
Polygalaceae
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Dig deeper at SERNEC, a consortium of southeastern herbaria.
Learn more about Pink Milkwort from the Vascular Plants of North Carolina.
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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USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / Britton, N.L., and A. Brown. 1913 pnd_poin4_001_lvd
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Keith Bradley kab_p_incarnata_08964
April Collier County FL
Big Cypress National Preserve
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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).
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Terry Holdsclaw tdh_p_incarnata_0028
June Catawba County NC
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Terry Holdsclaw tdh_p_incarnata_0031
June Catawba County NC
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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).
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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
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
TO LEARN MORE about this plant, look it up in a good book!
- Wildflowers of the Atlantic Southeast (Cotterman, Waitt, & Weakley, 2019) p317
- Wildflowers of the Eastern United States (Duncan & Duncan, 1999) p045
- Field Guide to the Wildflowers of Georgia (Chafin, 2016) p287
- Wildflowers of Tennessee (Carman, 2005) p162
- Wildflowers of Tennessee, the Ohio Valley, and the Southern Appalachians (Horn, Cathcart, Hemmerly, & Duhl, 2005) p199
- Wildflowers of the Southern Mountains (Smith, 1998) p091