polygala paucifolia

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   common trailing perennial milkwort of eastern North America having leaves like wintergreen and usually rosy-purple flowers with winged sepals

   Synonymsflowering wintergreengaywingsbird-on-the-wingfringed polygala

   Broadermilkwort

Questions about polygala paucifolia

What does polygala paucifolia mean?

polygala paucifolia means "common trailing perennial milkwort of eastern North America having leaves like wintergreen and usually rosy-purple flowers with winged sepals".

What is another word for polygala paucifolia?

Close synonyms include flowering wintergreen, gaywings, bird-on-the-wing, fringed polygala. 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 paucifolia a common word?

polygala paucifolia 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.