Definition of Fringed polygala

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


Lexicographical Neighbors of Fringed Polygala

fringe benefit
fringe benefits
fringe bush
fringe cups
fringe group
fringe groups
fringe tree
fringed
fringed gecko
fringed gentian
fringed loosestrife
fringed orchid
fringed orchis
fringed pink
fringed polygala (current term)
fringed poppy mallow
fringeless
fringelike
fringent
fringepod
fringers
fringes
fringey
fringier
fringiest
fringilla
fringillaceous
fringilline

Literary usage of Fringed polygala

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Through the Year with Thoreau by Henry David Thoreau, Herbert Wendell Gleason (1917)
"fringed polygala MAY 17, 1853. The fringed polygala surprises us in meadows or in low woods as a rarer, richer, and more delicate color, with a singularly ..."

2. Ten New England Blossoms and Their Insect Visitors by Clarence Moores Weed (1895)
"VIII THE fringed polygala Botany and entomology must henceforth go hand in hand. ... In late spring and early summer the fringed polygala 1 is one of the ..."

3. How to Know the Wild Flowers: A Guide to the Names, Haunts, and Habits of by Frances Theodora Parsons (1895)
"I must not forget to mention that delicate and lovely flower of May, the fringed polygala. You gather it when you go for the fragrant showy orchis—that is, ..."

4. Outlines of Lessons in Botany: For the Use of Teachers, Or Mothers Studying by Jane Hancox Newell (1892)
"A plant belonging to the Honeysuckle family, the Diervilla, is described in the first chapter on Early Summer Flowers. fringed polygala ..."

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