Family | Scientific Name | Common Name | Habitat | Distribution | Image |
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Fabaceae | Galactia elliottii | Elliott's Milkpea | Pine-live oak flats, slash pine flats, Florida scrub and dry prairie, pine flatwoods, marshes and marsh edges, peat bogs, ditches, roadsides, spoil areas, marl, sandy peat, white sands. | S. SC south to s. FL. Discovered in 2021 at base of planted Sabal palmetto in landscaping on Oak Island (Brunswick County), NC; presumably brought in on nursery material raised in FL or GA and probably spread to other areas via planting of cabbage palms. | |
Fabaceae | Galactia erecta | Erect Milkpea | Longleaf pine sandhills. | Se. NC south to Panhandle FL, west to e. TX. | |
Fabaceae | Galactia floridana | Florida Milkpea | Longleaf pine sandhills and other xeric sands. | S. GA south to s. FL, west to s. MS. | |
Fabaceae | Galactia minor | Little Milkpea | Longleaf pine sandhills. | Sc. NC south to Panhandle FL, west to s. MS. | |
Fabaceae | Galactia mollis | Soft Sandhill Milk-pea | Longleaf pine sandhills, in loamy flats or swales. | Se. NC south to c. peninsular FL, west to Panhandle FL and se. AL. | |
Fabaceae | Galactia regularis | Eastern Milkpea, Downy Milkpea | Dry forests and woodlands, scrubby flatwoods (FL). | Se. NY west to MO and OK, south to s. FL and se. TX. | |
Fabaceae | Galactia volubilis | McRee's Milkpea | Longleaf pine sandhills, other dry forests and openings. | Se. VA south to s. FL, west to c. AR and e. TX. | |
Fabaceae | Galactia canescens | Hoary Milkpea | Sandy soils. | TX, COA, NLE, TAM, VER. | |
Fabaceae | Galactia heterophylla | Gray's Milkpea | Sandy loam, prairies. | C. and s. TX. | |
Fabaceae | Galactia longifolia | Longleaf Milkpea | Coastal prairies. | Se. TX; South America. | |
Fabaceae | Galactia marginalis | Edible Milkpea | Oak-juniper woodlands, blackjack-post oak woodlands, coastal prairies, sandy, sandy loam, and gravelly hillsides, ditch banks. | Se. and s. TX, TAM, COA; South America. | |
Fabaceae | Galactia grisebachii | Grisebach's Milkpea | Pinelands, pine-palmetto, hammocks, weedy grassland, sandy fields, beaches. | S. FL (Miami-Dade, Less, and Monroe counties); West Indies. | |
Fabaceae | Galactia pinetorum | Pineland Milkpea | Pine rocklands. | Endemic to s. FL (Brevard, Miami-Dade, and Monroe counties). | |
Fabaceae | Galactia smallii | Small's Milkpea | Pine rocklands. | S. FL. | |
Fabaceae | Galactia striata | Florida Hammock Milkpea | Hammocks, mangroves, thickets, scrubland, disturbed areas. | Peninsular FL; West Indies; Mexico, Central America, and South America. | |
Fabaceae | Galactia texana | Texas Milkpea | Calcareous canyons and stream-bottoms. | Edwards Plateau and adjacent areas, TX; ne. Mexico (COA, NLE, TAM). | |
Fabaceae | Galactia fasciculata | Large Trailing Milkpea | Sand-pine scrub, dunes and hills with sand pine-oak, oak-hickory, scrubby flatwoods, river banks with live oak, longleaf pine, and saw palmetto, disturbed areas. | Endemic to FL peninsula. | |
Fabaceae | Galactia brachypoda | Smooth Creeping Milkpea | Longleaf pine sandhills, Florida scrub, xeric hammocks, dry oak woodlands. | NJ south to s. FL. | |
Fabaceae | Galactia microphylla | Littleleaf Milkpea | Dunes, longleaf pine sandhills, Florida scrub. | S. AL and adjacent w. Panhandle FL. |
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