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Polygala sanguinea (purple milkwort; blood milkwort)

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Wikipedia Abstract

Polygala sanguinea, known as purple milkwort or field milkwort, is an annual plant in the family Polygalaceae. It is native to widespread areas of Eastern North America, but is absent from the Southeastern Coastal Plain. It is it generally found in wet, acidic soils in open areas such as prairies and fields. It produces pink-purple (occasionally white) flowers in the summer.
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Attributes

Allergen Potential [1]  Medium-Low
Lifespan [2]  Annual
Structure [3]  Herb

Protected Areas

Predators

Ammodramus leconteii (Le Conte's Sparrow)[4]

Providers

External References

USDA Plant Profile

NatureServe Explorer

Citations

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♦ 1Derived from Allergy-Free Gardening OPALS™, Thomas Leo Ogren (2000)
♦ 2USDA Plants Database, U. S. Department of Agriculture
♦ 3Kattge, J. et al. (2011b) TRY - a global database of plant traits Global Change Biology 17:2905-2935
♦ 4Jorrit H. Poelen, James D. Simons and Chris J. Mungall. (2014). Global Biotic Interactions: An open infrastructure to share and analyze species-interaction datasets. Ecological Informatics.
♦ 5Robertson, C. Flowers and insects lists of visitors of four hundred and fifty three flowers. 1929. The Science Press Printing Company Lancaster, PA.
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Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0