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Galactia texana

Texas milkpea
Habit Herbs from a slender, elongate, woody taproot.
Stems

climbing-twining, proximally lignescent, hirsute-strigose to strigose, hairs loosely appressed, retrorse.
Leaflets

3, blades elliptic to broadly elliptic or oblong-elliptic, (15–)20–42 × 10–25(–32) mm, herbaceous, veins raised or not on both surfaces, apex obtuse to rounded or shallowly retuse, surfaces not glaucous, sparsely strigose with closely appressed hairs to softly hirsute with ascending hairs abaxially, glabrous to sparsely strigose adaxially.
Inflorescences

flowers solitary and axillary or 2–5 in reduced pseudoracemes;

axis 1–4(–40) mm.
Flowers

calyx 6 mm, loosely strigose to hirsute-strigose or hirsute;

corolla pink, rose, reddish, or purple-cream, 8–11 mm.
Legumes

falcate, 30–60 × 4–6 mm, sparsely minutely strigulose, hairs closely appressed.
Seeds

(3–)6–10.

Galactia texana
Phenology Flowering Jun–Jul(–Aug).
Habitat Oak-juniper, ash-juniper, and oak woodlands, valley and canyon bottoms, roadbanks, gravelly limestone outcrops and slopes, streamsides, terraces, limestone alluvium, rocky clay.
Elevation 300–1500 m. (1000–4900 ft.)
Distribution
from FNA
TX; Mexico (Coahuila, Nuevo Léon, Tamaulipas); South America (Argentina)
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Discussion

In Texas, Galactia texana is known from east-central counties southwestward to the Big Bend region.

Galactia texana is characterized by its twining stems, relatively short, few-flowered inflorescences, and falcate fruits.

(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. regularis, G. smallii, G. striata, G. volubilis, G. wrightii
Synonyms Lablab texanus
Name authority (Scheele) A. Gray: Boston J. Nat. Hist. 6: 170. (1850)
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