Chapman's Milkwort

Polygala chapmanii T. & G. Fl. N. Am. 1: 131. 1838
Slender erect annual, 1.5-4 dm. high, obscurely papillose-glandular above; leaves all alternate, linear, 6-17 mm. long, 0.5-1 mm. wide, mucronulate; peduncles 1-7.5 cm. long; racemes ovoid or ovoid-cylindric, acute or apiculate, rarely obtuse, dense, 6-10 mm. thick, the axis 1-3.7 cm. long; bracts ovate-subulate, ciliate, spreading, persistent, 0.S-1.2 mm. long; pedicels 1.5 mm. long; flowers pink or purplish; sepals suborbicular-ovate, acute or apiculate, sometimes ciliate, 1.2-1.4 mm. long; wings obovate or elliptic-obovate, 3-3.8 mm. long, 1.5-2.3 mm. wide, rounded, minutely apiculate, short-clawed, 6-7-nerved; keel 2.1-2.8 mm. long, the crest on each side of a rounded lamella and a single sometimes bifid lobe; capsule rhombic-suborbicular, 1.8-2 mm. long, 1.4 mm. wide; seed pyriform, rostrate at base, apiculate at apex, shortpilose, 0.9-1.2 mm. long; aril 0.4 mm. long, the 2 oblong lobes fastened to the pointed base of seed, loosely appressed to seed or slightly spreading.
Type locality: West Florida.
Distribution: Georgia to Florida and Mississippi.

Polygala chapmanii is a flowering plant species in the milkwort family (Polygalaceae). It is endemic to states in the southeastern United States bordering the Gulf of Mexico including Alabama and parts of the Florida panhandle but is not reported from Texas. It is an annual and grows to about two feet tall. It is a dicot.