Scientific Name
Galactia regularis
Common Name
Milk pea
Wildflowers
Plant Fact Sheets
Consumer Hort
Life Cycle:
Perennial
Height:
1 to 3 foot prostrate vine
Flower/fruit:
.5 to .75 inch reddish purple flowers in raceme about the same length as the leaves
Flowering Season:
Summer
Foliage:
Compound leaf with 1 to 1.5 inch elliptical leaflets rounded at both ends; slender, prostrate or climbing stems
Site:
Sandy soil, open woods, thickets, roadsides
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