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§1 Plant

Polygala boykinii Nutt.

vernacular Boykin's milkwort — species · Polygalaceae


USDA
POBO4
GBIF
3191390
Rank
species
Boykin's milkwort (Polygala boykinii)
Platephotograph · floydgriffithCC BY-NC source · iNaturalist ↗

§2Habit & range

Habit and range

Growth habit
Forb/herb
Duration
Annual
Group
Dicot
Family
Polygalaceae Hoffmanns. & Link
Genus
Polygala
§2a

Native status, by region

  • L48 Lower 48 States Native
§2b

County-level range

· 73 counties across 6 states/territories
Legend Native · 73 Introduced · 0 Both · 0 Hover a county for detail.

§3Cultivation

No cultivation specs.

USDA has not characterised this taxon. Roughly four out of five plants in the database lack the detailed cultivation record present here — typically because they have not been the focus of NRCS Plant Materials work. Range and distribution data are unaffected.


§4Counties, by state

Recorded in 73 counties across 6 states/territories.

Alabama view state ↗ 28 N
Florida view state ↗ 17 N
Georgia view state ↗ 6 N
Louisiana view state ↗ 2 N
Mississippi view state ↗ 17 N
Tennessee view state ↗ 3 N

§5Sources & provenance

USDA PLANTS

Symbol, taxonomy, distribution, cultivation specs, native status. Public domain.

plants.usda.gov/POBO4 ↗

GBIF Backbone

Canonical taxonomic identity, synonym resolution, cross-refs. CC0.

gbif.org/species/3191390 ↗

Record version

Cached and built locally. Source version on this record:

usda-plants-mt-2026-05-26

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