External links to taxonomic opinions:
- IPNI Life Sciences Identifier (LSID)
- urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:205850-2
- Species Name
- Polygala senega L., Sp. Pl. 2: 704 (1753).
- Publication
- Flora Americae Septentrionalis; or, a Systematic Arrangement and Description of the Plants of North America
- Collation
- 2: 750
- Date of Publication
- Dec 1813
- Family as entered in IPNI
- Polygalaceae
Type Information
- Collector Team
- Meriwether Lewis s.n.
- Type Herbaria
- lectotype PH-LC 173 173
- Distribution Of Types
- At or near the mouth of Little Muddy River (White Earth River of Lewis &
Clark), Williams C. on the north of Missouri, McKenzie Co. on the south., North Dakota (North-Central U.S.A., Northern America)
Nomenclatural Notes
as Seneca
Remarks
Reveal et al. (Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia 149: 39-30. 1999) are uncertain on the type data.
Links
- Nomenclatural link
- Polygala alba var. tenuifolia S.F.Blake, Contr. Gray Herb. 47: 86, pl. 2, fig. 61 (1916).
- Nomenclatural link
- Polygala alba var. tenuifolia (Pursh) S.F.Blake