View source for Polygala balduini

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|accepted_name=Polygala balduini
|accepted_authority=Nuttall
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Gen. N. Amer. Pl.
|place=2: 90. 1818
|year=1818
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|common_names=Baldwin’s milkwort
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|synonyms={{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Pilostaxis balduini
|authority=(Nuttall) Small
|rank=species
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|name=P. carteri
|authority=(Small) Small
|rank=species
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|name=Polygala balduini var. carteri
|authority=(Small) R. R. Smith & D. B. Ward
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|name=P. carteri
|authority=Small
|rank=species
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|hierarchy=Polygalaceae;Polygala;Polygala balduini
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Polygalaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Polygala]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>species</small>[[Polygala balduini]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 10
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Herbs </b>annual or biennial, single- to multi-stemmed, (1–)2–6.5 dm, rarely branched proximalto inflorescences; from fibrous root cluster. <b>Stems</b> erect, glabrous. <b>Leaves</b> with basal rosette sometimes present at anthesis, sometimes withered or nearly so; alternate; sessile or subsessile; basal blade obovate, to 12 mm wide, cauline blade obovate, elliptic, or narrowly spatulate, sometimes becoming linear distally, 3–25 × 1–5 mm, base cuneate or acute, apex usually rounded proximally, acute to obtuse distally, surfaces glabrous. <b>Racemes</b> in cymose panicles, ± flat-topped, 1.5–12 × 2.5–6 cm; each stem with (3–)5–20(–40) racemose branches, 0.4–6 × 0.7–1.5 cm; central one nearly sessile, lateral ones with peduncle to 2 cm; bracts persistent, lanceolate-ovate. <b>Pedicels</b> winged, 0.6–1.2 mm, glabrous. <b>Flowers</b> usually white or cream, sometimes greenish tinged, drying white to brownish green, corolla usually becoming pale yellowish apically, 3–6 mm; sepals decurrent on pedicel, ovate, lanceolate, or linear-lanceolate, 1.6–2.5 mm; wings narrowly ovate to slightly obovate or elliptic, 2.8–4.8 × 0.9–1.7 mm, apex narrowing into apical cusp, 0.6–0.8 mm; keel 2–4 mm, crest 2-parted, with 3 2-fid (rarely entire) lobes on each side. <b>Capsules</b> depressed-suborbicular, 0.6–1 × 0.8–1.2 mm, margins not winged. <b>Seeds</b> 0.5–1 mm, pubescent; aril 0–0.4 mm, lobes absent, reduced to minute scales, or to 1/3–2/5 length of seed. <b>2n</b> = 64, 68.</span><!--

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|phenology=Flowering year-round.
|habitat=Bogs, marshes, prairies, wet flatwoods, coastal swales, open degraded areas.
|elevation=0–100 m.
|distribution=Ala.;Fla.;Ga.;Miss.;Tex.;West Indies (Bahamas;w Cuba).
|discussion=<p>Plants from southern Florida have been recognized as var. <i>carteri</i>, based on their less robust stature and greener, less conspicuous inflorescences (R. R. Smith and D. B. Ward 1976). More specifically, extremes of var. <i>carteri</i> have more or less elongated racemes to 6 cm, bracts usually less than 2 mm, flowers cream to greenish white, seeds more than 0.6 mm, and arils a minute scale or absent, whereas extremes of var. <i>balduini</i> have dense racemes to 3 cm, bracts usually more than 2 mm, flowers white, seeds less than 0.6 mm, and arils usually 0.2 mm (infrequently smaller). Such apparently distinctive features all intergrade and are not sharply geographically delineable; noting this, Smith and Ward stated that the northern limit of the variety was arbitrary.</p><!--
--><p><i>Polygala ramosa</i> is closely related to <i>P. balduini</i>, despite the obvious contrast between the yellow-flowered (green when dry), loosely branched inflorescences of <i>P. ramosa</i> and the white or near-white, more compact inflorescences of <i>P. balduini</i>. Hybrids occur and have been called <i>P. balduini</i> var. <i>chlorogena</i> Torrey & A. Gray.</p>
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name=Polygala balduini
|authority=Nuttall
|rank=species
|parent rank=genus
|synonyms=Pilostaxis balduini;P. carteri;Polygala balduini var. carteri;P. carteri
|basionyms=
|family=Polygalaceae
|phenology=Flowering year-round.
|habitat=Bogs, marshes, prairies, wet flatwoods, coastal swales, open degraded areas.
|elevation=0–100 m.
|distribution=Ala.;Fla.;Ga.;Miss.;Tex.;West Indies (Bahamas;w Cuba).
|reference=None
|publication title=Gen. N. Amer. Pl.
|publication year=1818
|special status=
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|genus=Polygala
|species=Polygala balduini
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