Family: Fabaceae
Group: Dicot
Substrate:
Terrestrial
Habit:
Herb
Perennation:
Perennial
IRC SOUTH FLORIDA Status:
Rare
Map of select IRC data for peninsular Florida
SOUTH FLORIDA Occurrence:
Present
SOUTH FLORIDA Native Status:
Native
SOUTH FLORIDA Cultivated Status:
Cultivated
Comments: Prostrate plants historically treated as this in South Florida, or more recently as
Galactia volubilis (e.g., Wunderlin & Hansen 2011), are currently treated as
G. purshii in the Atlas of Florida Vascular Plants, as
Galactia brachypoda in
Nesom (2015), and as
Galactia michauxii in
Franck (2017). It is prostrate, with appressed stem vestiture, realtively large leaflets (terminal leaflet >2/5 cm long) and large flowers, 11–15 mm long.
FLORIDA KEYS Occurrence:
Recorded as Present in Error
Map of select IRC data for the Florida Keys
Florida Keys History and Distribution: Not reported for the Florida Keys by John Kunkel Small in 1913. Reported only by Kruer (1992) for Biscayne National Park and Key West National Wildlife Refuge. These were probably misidentifications of
G. striata.
