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§1 Plant

Polygala mariana Mill.

vernacular Maryland milkwort — species · Polygalaceae


USDA
POMA8
GBIF
3191400
Rank
species
Maryland milkwort (Polygala mariana)
Platephotograph · Fritz Flohr ReynoldsCC BY-SA 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

· 219 counties across 16 states/territories
Legend Native · 219 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 219 counties across 16 states/territories.

Alabama view state ↗ 4 N
Arkansas view state ↗ 9 N
Delaware view state ↗ 2 N
District of Columbia view state ↗ 1 N
Florida view state ↗ 13 N
Georgia view state ↗ 13 N
Indiana view state ↗ 1 N
Kentucky view state ↗ 2 N
Louisiana view state ↗ 35 N
Mississippi view state ↗ 27 N
New Jersey view state ↗ 9 N
New York view state ↗ 1 N
North Carolina view state ↗ 35 N
South Carolina view state ↗ 22 N
Tennessee view state ↗ 3 N
Virginia view state ↗ 42 N

§5Sources & provenance

USDA PLANTS

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

plants.usda.gov/POMA8 ↗

GBIF Backbone

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

gbif.org/species/3191400 ↗

Record version

Cached and built locally. Source version on this record:

usda-plants-mt-2026-05-26

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