Family: Fabaceae
Group: Dicot
Substrate:
Terrestrial
Habit:
Herb
Perennation:
Perennial
Native Range: South Florida in Miami-Dade County.
Map of select IRC data for peninsular Florida
NatureServe Global Status:
Critically Imperiled
United States Federal Status:
Endangered
State of Florida Status:
Endangered
Florida Natural Areas Inventory State Status:
Critically Imperiled
IRC SOUTH FLORIDA Status:
Imperiled
SOUTH FLORIDA Occurrence:
Present
SOUTH FLORIDA Native Status:
Native
SOUTH FLORIDA Cultivated Status:
Cultivated
Comments: We follow
Nesom (2015) with regard to this use of this name versus
Galactia volubilis as in Wunderlin & Hansen (2011) or
Galactia pinetorum as in Herndon (1981). This is a procumbent (non-twining)
Galactia with herbaceous, broad leaflets, 6–20 mm wide, without raised venation, and relatively large flowers, 10–15 mm long. Due to changing taxonomic concepts, we have modified several reports of this in Miami-Dade County from False to Reported (see below). Previous reassignments of some of these reports to
Galactia pinetorum may have been in error and these reported occurrences are in need of review and documentation.
See also the U.S. Fish and Wildlife
Species Profile and Florida Natural Areas Inventory's
Field Guide to the Rare Plants of Florida page (Chafin 2000).
Synonyms: Galactia prostrata; Galactia regularis of Wunderlin 1998, in part, not (L.) Britton, Sterns, & Poggenb.;
Galactia volubilis of Wunderlin & Hansen 2011, in part, not (L.) Britton.
