Flora of North America species comparison

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Galactia canescens

hoary milkpea
Habit Herbs from slender, elongate woody taproot, usually producing filiform rhizomes at nodes, these producing subterranean flowers and 1-seeded fruits.
Stems

procumbent, not twining, proximally lignescent, moderately strigose, hairs loosely appressed, retrorse.
Leaflets

3, blades broadly oblong to oblong-obovate, oblong-elliptic, or suborbiculate, 11–35(–42) × 8–30(–35) mm, herbaceous, veins not raised, apex rounded to flat or shallowly retuse, surfaces blue-green glaucous and densely strigose abaxially, sparsely strigose adaxially with closely appressed hairs.
Inflorescences

flowers 5–8 in pseudoracemes;

axis 60–120 mm.
Flowers

calyx 5–8 mm, hirsute to strigose-hirsute;

corolla pink to pink-red or light purple, 9–11 mm.
Legumes

straight or slightly curved, 30–50 × 6–9 mm, densely strigose-sericeous.
Seeds

1–5.

Galactia canescens
Phenology Flowering Apr–Oct.
Habitat Sandy prairies, dunes, sand mounds, sandy roadsides, disturbed sites, sandy loam, alluvial sands.
Elevation 0–200 m. (0–700 ft.)
Distribution
from FNA
TX; Mexico (Tamaulipas)
[BONAP county map]
Discussion

Galactia canescens is characterized by its prostrate, strigose stems rooting at the nodes, slender rhizomes often bearing subterranean flowers and fruits, and broadly oblong to suborbiculate leaflets with glaucous and densely strigose abaxial surfaces. It is found in more than 20 counties in Texas.

(Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.)
Source FNA vol. 11.
Parent taxa Fabaceae > subfam. Faboideae > Galactia
Sibling taxa
G. brachypoda, G. elliottii, G. erecta, G. fasciculata, G. floridana, G. grisebachii, G. heterophylla, G. joselyniae, G. longifolia, G. marginalis, G. microphylla, G. minor, G. mollis, G. pinetorum, G. regularis, G. smallii, G. striata, G. texana, G. volubilis, G. wrightii
Synonyms Heterocarpaea texana
Name authority Bentham: Comm. Legum. Gen., 62. (1837)
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