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|accepted_name=Polygala crenata
|accepted_authority=C. W. James
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Rhodora
|place=59: 53. 1957
|year=1957
}}
|common_names=Scalloped milkwort
|basionyms={{Treatment/ID/Basionym
|name=Polygala polygama
|authority=Walter forma obovata S. F. Blake
|rank=species
|publication_title=Rhodora
|publication_place=17: 201.  1915
}}
|synonyms=
|hierarchy=Polygalaceae;Polygala;Polygala crenata
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Polygalaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Polygala]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>species</small>[[Polygala crenata]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 10
|mention_page=
|treatment_page=
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Herbs </b>short-lived perennial (rarely biennial or annual), single- or multi-stemmed, (1.2–)2–3(–3.5) dm, usually unbranched, rarely branched distally; from taproot or fibrous root cluster. <b>Stems</b> erect, sometimes laxly so, to nearly decumbent, glabrous. <b>Leaves</b> alternate; sessile or subsessile, or with narrowed petiolelike base to 2 mm; blade obovate or elliptic, sometimes becoming scalelike proximally, (5–)8–23 × (2–)3–8(–9) mm, base cuneate, apex rounded, obtuse, or acute, surfaces glabrous. <b>Racemes</b> loosely cylindric, open, elongate, 7–10(–15) × 1–1.5 cm; peduncle 1–2(–2.5) cm; bracts deciduous, ovate. <b>Pedicels</b> 3–4(–5) mm, glabrous. <b>Cleistogamous</b> flowers present in racemes usually below, rarely just above, soil surface, sometimes in proximal leaf axils later in season. <b>Flowers</b> pink to pale purple, 4–6 mm; sepals ovate or elliptic, 1.1–2 mm; wings elliptic, ovate, or obovate, (3.3–)4–5 × (1.5–)2–2.7 mm, apex obtuse to bluntly rounded; keel 3–4 mm, crest 2-parted, with 2–4 entire or divided lobes on each side. <b>Capsules</b> broadly ellipsoid, 2–3.5 × 2–3 mm, margins narrowly winged, wings equal, crenate. <b>Seeds</b> 1.5–2 mm, pubescent; aril 1 mm, somewhat helmetlike, lobes to 1/4 length of seed.</span><!--

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|phenology=Flowering spring–summer.
|habitat=Wet flatwoods and savannas, sandy mesic hills, bogs, acidic swamps.
|elevation=0–100 m.
|distribution=Ala.;Fla.;Ga.;La.;Miss.;Tex.
|discussion=<p>Polygala crenata is known only from the East Gulf Coastal Plain.</p>
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name=Polygala crenata
|authority=C. W. James
|rank=species
|parent rank=genus
|synonyms=
|basionyms=Polygala polygama
|family=Polygalaceae
|phenology=Flowering spring–summer.
|habitat=Wet flatwoods and savannas, sandy mesic hills, bogs, acidic swamps.
|elevation=0–100 m.
|distribution=Ala.;Fla.;Ga.;La.;Miss.;Tex.
|reference=None
|publication title=Rhodora
|publication year=1957
|special status=
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|genus=Polygala
|species=Polygala crenata
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