Flora of North America species comparison

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Galactia regularis

downy milkpea, eastern milkpea
Habit Herbs from an elongate woody taproot.
Stems

climbing-twining, herbaceous, moderately to densely hirsute to hirsute-villous with spreading-deflexed hairs.
Leaflets

3, blades elliptic to broadly elliptic, oblong-elliptic, or lanceolate-elliptic, (10–)14–40(–50) × (5–)10–21(–25) mm, herbaceous, veins not raised, apex obtuse to rounded, surfaces sparsely strigose abaxially (often glaucous), minutely and sparsely short-strigose adaxially.
Inflorescences

flowers solitary and axillary or 2–7(–9) in reduced pseudoracemes on distal 1/2–3/4 of axis;

axis 10–70(–150) mm.
Flowers

calyx 4–6 mm, hirsute-villous;

corolla pink to rose, light violet, pink-purple, or rose-purple, 7–10 mm.
Legumes

straight, 20–50 × 3–5 mm, loosely strigose.
Seeds

5–9.

Galactia regularis
Phenology Flowering (Jun–)Jul–Aug.
Habitat Oak, pine-oak woods, woodland borders, fence rows, low fields, pond and stream margins, ditches, roadbanks, open disturbed sites.
Elevation 20–500(–900) m. (100–1600(–3000) ft.)
Distribution
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AL; AR; DE; FL; GA; IL; IN; KS; KY; LA; MD; MO; MS; NC; NJ; NY; OH; OK; PA; SC; TN; TX; VA; WV
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Discussion

Galactia regularis is the most widespread species of the genus in the eastern United States and is characterized by its relatively small flowers, elliptic leaflets, and twining, deflexed-hirsute-villous stems.

(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. canescens, 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. smallii, G. striata, G. texana, G. volubilis, G. wrightii
Synonyms Dolichos regularis, G. volubilis var. mississippiensis
Name authority (Linnaeus) Britton: Sterns & Poggenburg, Prelim. Cat., 14. (1888)
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