SLENDER MILKWORT
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Polygala incarnata L.
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| Shawnee County, Kansas |
| Annual |
| Height: 4-24 inches |
| Family: Polygalaceae - Milkwort Family |
| Flowering Period: June, July, August |
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| Also Called: | | Pink polygala, pink milkwort. | | Stems: | | Erect, slender, simple or rarely branched, bluish-green or silvery-green, waxy, grooved longitudinally. | | Leaves: | | Alternate, few, distantly spaced, erect or ascending, narrowly linear to awl-shaped, 1/6 to 1/2 inch long, less than 1/25 inch wide, waxy, absent at base. | | Inflorescences: | | Raceme, spike-like, cylindrical, dense, .4 to 1.4 inch long, 1/5 to 1/3 inch in diameter, terminal; stalk .8 to 1.6 inch long. | | Flowers: | | Pink, rose-purple or rarely white; sepals 5, uppermost and lower 2 small and greenish, lateral 2 larger and colored like petals; petals 3, united into tube, 3-lobed at apex, middle lobe keel-shaped and often crested on back; corolla 1/3 to 2/5 inch long, 2-5 times longer than calyx; stamens 6-8, fused to corolla tube. | | Fruits: | | Capsule, nearly round to egg-shaped, to 1/6 inch long, grooved, 2-seeded; seeds tiny, plump, soft-hairy. | | Habitat: | | Moist meadows and dry prairies, open woods, low sandy or silty open ground. | | Distribution: | | East 1/2 of Kansas. |
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| Slender milkwort inflorescence |  | | 24 KB | | Shawnee County, Kansas |
| | Slender milkwort leaves |  | | 26 KB | | Shawnee County, Kansas |
| | Slender milkwort leaf |  | | 44 KB | | Barton County, Missouri |
| | Slender milkwort flowers |  | | 24 KB | | Barton County, Missouri |
| | Slender milkwort |  | | 24 KB | | Barton County, Missouri |
| | Slender milkwort |  | | 39 KB | | Leavenworth County, Kansas |
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