Native Plants
Galactia texana
Galactia texana (Scheele) A. Gray
Texas Milkpea
Fabaceae (Pea Family)
USDA Symbol: GATEUSDA Native Status: L48 (N)
Specimen & Label Data
Galactia texana
Texas Milkpea
Fabaceae
Location: Medina River Ranch, Gate 9, 150 m inside gate.Latitude: 0.000000
Habitat: Under growth of Quercus, Cornus, Sapindus; in damp alkaline alluvial soil.
Description: Long trailing, eventually twining vine. Leaflets 3, ovate-elliptic, rounded basally; emarginate, but with a mucronulate tip apically, 30x45 mm. Leaves long petiolate, infloresence axillary, 1-2 racemes to 10 cm long with well spaced corollas in 3's. Plant hirsute on stems, leaves, sepals. Corolla wings lavender.
County: Medina
Collector: Harry Cliffe
Collection Date: Jun 6, 1992
Specimen number: 444
Herbarium Owner: NPSOT
Herbarium ID: 0653
Accession Date: Feb 22, 1994
Accession Number: 48
Annotations: SCXXM