Family: Fabaceae
Group: Dicot
Substrate:
Terrestrial
Habit:
Herb
Perennation:
Perennial
Native Range: Possibly endemic to South Florida in Miami-Dade County; there is a single specimen from Brevard County also cited as this in Nesom (2015).
NatureServe Global Status:
Imperiled
Florida Natural Areas Inventory State Status:
Imperiled
IRC SOUTH FLORIDA Status:
Imperiled
Map of select IRC data for peninsular Florida
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). This is the procumbent (non-twining)
Galactia with very narrow leaflets, 2–8(–11) mm wide, with raised venation, and relatively large flowers, 11–15 mm long.
Synonyms:
Galactia regularis of Wunderlin 1998, in part, not (L.) Britton, Sterns, & Poggenb.;
Galactia volubilis of Wunderlin & Hansen 2011, in part, not (L.) Britton.
FLORIDA KEYS Occurrence:
A Doubtfull Record
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 from Big Pine Key (Williams, 1989).
