Galactia elliottii: taxon details and analytics
- Domain
- Kingdom
- Plantae
- Phylum
- Tracheophyta
- Class
- Magnoliopsida
- Order
- Fabales
- Family
- Fabaceae
- Genus
- Galactia
- Species
- Galactia elliottii
- Scientific Name
- Galactia elliottii
Summary description from Wikipedia:
Galactia elliottii
Galactia elliottii, commonly known as Elliott's milkpea or white milkpea, is a species of flowering plant found in the south-eastern United States, a member of the family Fabaceae.
It is native to Florida, Georgia and South Carolina. It can be found in habitats such as sandy scrub, pine flatwoods, and dry pine woods.
It is a dicot with compound leaves ranging from 7 to 9 rounded leaflets. Leaves are light yellow when newly opening. It is a vining plant that can be found climbing or sprawled on the ground. Flowers and buds are white, on dark stems. Seed pods are lightly fuzzy and flattened, drying to dark brown. The seeds are small, round, and tan with darker brown stripes. The plants flower from March to September.
...Galactia elliottii in languages:
- English
- Elliott's milkpea
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Parent Taxon
Sibling Taxa
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- Galactia albiflora
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- Galactia argentea
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- Galactia austrofloridensis
- Galactia benthamiana
- Galactia boavista
- Galactia brachypoda
- Galactia brachystachys
- Galactia canescens
- Galactia combsii
- Galactia crassifolia
- Galactia densiflora
- Galactia douradensis
- Galactia dubia
- Galactia eggersii
- Galactia elliottii
- Galactia erecta
- Galactia fasciculata
- Galactia filiformis
- Galactia floridana
- Galactia glabella
- Galactia glaucescens
- Galactia glaucophylla
- Galactia gracillima
- Galactia grewiifolia
- Galactia grisebachii
- Galactia heterophylla
- Galactia incana
- Galactia jenningsii
- Galactia joselyniae
- Galactia jussiaeana
- Galactia lamprophylla
- Galactia latisiliqua
- Galactia lindenii
- Galactia lockhartii
- Galactia longiflora
- Galactia longifolia
- Galactia marginalis
- Galactia martioides
- Galactia microphylla
- Galactia mollis
- Galactia multiflora
- Galactia nummularia
- Galactia parvifolia
- Galactia peduncularis
- Galactia pinetorum
- Galactia pretiosa
- Galactia purshii
- Galactia regularis
- Galactia rubra
- Galactia rudolphioides
- Galactia smallii
- Galactia spiciformis
- Galactia stereophylla
- Galactia striata
- Galactia tashiroi
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