OF THE CAROLINAS & GEORGIA

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

WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/24/22):
Galactia brachypoda   FAMILY Fabaceae   Go to FSUS key



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

Galactia brachypoda

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

Galactia michauxii

SYNONYMOUS WITH Taxonomy of Galactia (Fabaceae) in the USA (Nesom, 2015)

Galactia brachypoda

INCLUDED WITHIN Changes in Galactia (Fabaceae) in the Southeastern US (Duncan, 1979)

Galactia glabella

SYNONYMOUS WITH VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 098-50-004?:

Galactia regularis   FAMILY Fabaceae

 

COMMON NAME:
Pine-barren Milkpea


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WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/24/22):
Galactia brachypoda   FAMILY Fabaceae

INCLUDING Floristic Synthesis of North America. BONAP (Kartesz, 2021)
Galactia brachypoda

INCLUDING Floristic Synthesis of North America. BONAP (Kartesz, 2021)
Galactia michauxii

SYNONYMOUS WITH Taxonomy of Galactia (Fabaceae) in the USA (Nesom, 2015)
Galactia brachypoda

INCLUDED WITHIN Changes in Galactia (Fabaceae) in the Southeastern US (Duncan, 1979)
Galactia glabella

SYNONYMOUS WITH VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 098-50-004?:
Galactia regularis   FAMILY Fabaceae

 

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4338

Herbaceous vine, trailing, mostly non-twining
Perennial

Habitat: Longleaf pine sandhills, Florida scrub, xeric hammocks, dry oak woodlands, per Weakley's Flora

Native to the Carolinas & Georgia

Common in Coastal Plain (rare in Piedmont)

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DOES THE PLANT HAVE "MILKY SAP"?
Does not have milky sap

LEAVES:
Odd-pinnately compound: 3 leaflets
Mostly alternate
Leaflets have petiolules.
Leaflets are subtended by stipels.

FLOWER:
Spring/Summer/Fall
Pink
Bilaterally symmetrical
4-lobed calyx
5-parted papilionaceous corolla
Superior ovary

FRUIT:
Summer/Fall?
Legume

 

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