polygala lutea

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   bog plant of pine barrens of southeastern United States having spikes of irregular yellow-orange flowers

   Synonymsorange milkwortyellow milkwortcandyweedyellow bachelor's button

   Broadermilkwort

Questions about polygala lutea

What does polygala lutea mean?

polygala lutea means "bog plant of pine barrens of southeastern United States having spikes of irregular yellow-orange flowers".

What is another word for polygala lutea?

Close synonyms include orange milkwort, yellow milkwort, candyweed, yellow bachelor's button. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is polygala lutea a common word?

polygala lutea is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.