Galactia microphylla

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Family:	FABACEAE
Species:	Galactia microphylla (Chapman) Hall & Ward
Common Name:	Little Leaf Milk Pea
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Plant Notes:	Little Leaf Milk Pea is a native herbaceous perennial in the Bean family (Fabaceae). It is native to the southern half of Alabama. Little Leaf Milk Pea occurs in sand hills, in scrub oak woods, in xeric sandy Longleaf pine forests, and on roadsides. It is a perennial with a thick, elongate taproot. Each root crown produces 1-several spreading procumbent stems. The stems are not twining. The stems are green or brown in color and pubescent with deflexed or appressed hairs. Leaves are alternate, petiolate, and 3-foliate. The leaflets are elliptic to ovate in outline with rounded apices and entire margins. The leaflets are dark green, glossy, and slightly pubescent with appressed hairs above, and light green and short pubescent to glabrate below. The flowers are solitary or in 2-6 flowered racemes from the leaf axils. Each flower has a campanulate calyx with 5 lobes that appears as 4-lobed (the upper two lobes are fused). The corolla is papilionaceous and pink-purple in color. The fruit is a laterally compressed legume with 3-8 seed.--A. Diamond
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Status:	Native
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Specimen:	View specimen details in the Alabama Herbarium Consortium Specimen Database

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Classification

Family	FABACEAE - Pea/Bean family
Genus	Galactia
Species	Galactia microphylla (Chapman) Hall & Ward - Little Leaf Milk Pea

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Synonyms

Synonym	Full Citation	Basionym	Type
Galactia floridana var. microphylla
Galactia minor

Specimens and Distribution

This species has been reported in the following counties by the herbaria listed. An overview of the individual specimens are provided in the table that follows. Click on the accession number to view details; click on column headers to sort; choose a county or herbaria to filter the specimen data.

Counties included on distribution map: Autauga, Baldwin, Butler, Covington, Geneva, Mobile, Wilcox

Herbaria represented by specimen data listed below: AUA, JSU, TROY, UNA, USAM, UWAL

Range of years during which specimens were collected: -

Barcode / Accession No.	County	Coll. Date	Collector & Collection No.	Herbarium & Herbarium Name Used
AUA000028937	Baldwin	10 OCT 2007	BARGER, T. WAYNE PERD-5	AUA GALACTIA MICROPHYLLA (CHAPM.) ROGERS EX ISELY
TROY000044947	Autauga	20 Jul 2017	Alvin R. Diamond 27876	TROY Galactia microphylla (Chapman) Hall & Ward
JSU139569	Baldwin	10 Aug 1993	D. D. Spaulding 4265	JSU Galactia microphylla (Chapman) Hall & Ward
UWAL0037603	Baldwin	12 Aug 1997	Sorrie, B.A. 9388	UWAL Galactia microphylla (Chapman) H.J. ex Hall & Ward
UNA00016853	Autauga	18 Jul 1880	Charles Mohr s.n.	UNA Galactia microphylla (Chapman) H.J. Rogers ex Hall & Ward
UWAL0044932	Covington	15 Aug 2011	Hansen, C.J. 5189	UWAL Galactia microphylla (Chapm.) H.J. Rogers ex Hall & Ward
UNA00008710	Wilcox	16 Jul 1982	S. C. Gunn 968	UNA Galactia microphylla (Chapman) H.J. Rogers ex Hall & Ward
TROY000044755	Geneva	27 Aug 2017	Cameron Byrd 1444	TROY Galactia microphylla (Chapman) Hall & Ward
TROY000005160	Butler	14 Oct 1978	Robert Kral 63031	TROY Galactia microphylla (Chapman) Hall & Ward
TROY000030692	Mobile	08 Aug 1952	Tippins DED s.n.	TROY Galactia microphylla (Chapman) Hall & Ward
USAM000006389	Mobile	18 Aug 1974	Michel G. Lelong 8147	USAM Galactia microphylla (Chapman) Hall & Ward
USAM000006387	Mobile	26 Jul 1967	Michel G. Lelong 3411	USAM Galactia microphylla (Chapman) Hall & Ward
TROY000005159	Covington	01 Jul 2004	Alvin R. Diamond 14457	TROY Galactia microphylla (Chapman) Hall & Ward
TROY000032972	Baldwin	20 Aug 2011	Alvin R. Diamond 22426a	TROY Galactia microphylla (Chapman) Hall & Ward
UWAL0039860	Autauga	20 Jul 2017	Diamond, Alvin R. 27876	UWAL Galactia microphylla (Chapman) Hall & Ward
USAM000006388	Mobile	26 Jul 1967	Michel G. Lelong 3411	USAM Galactia microphylla (Chapman) Hall & Ward

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For more information, contact: Brian R. Keener, Ph.D.

Data last modified: 12/13/2019

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Citation Information:

Keener, B. R., A.R. Diamond, L. J. Davenport, P. G. Davison, S. L. Ginzbarg, C. J. Hansen, C. S. Major, D. D. Spaulding, J. K. Triplett, and M. Woods. 2019. Alabama Plant Atlas. [S.M. Landry and K.N. Campbell (original application development), Florida Center for Community Design and Research. University of South Florida]. University of West Alabama, Livingston, Alabama.

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Galactia microphylla

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