Lewton's Milkwort

Polygala lewtonii Small, Bull. Torrey Club 25: 140. 1898.
Stems several or very numerous from a biennial slender root, 1-3 dm. high, erect or ascending, simple or sparsely branched; short leafless branches bearing cleistogamous flowers present; lowest leaves reduced and scale-like, the others alternate, crowded, usually with fascicles of smaller ones in their axils, linear-spatulate, 6-22 mm. long, 1-2.5 mm. wide, mucronulate at the rounded to acute apex, euneate at base, thickish, usually slightly revolute; peduncles 1 cm. long or less; racemes cylindric, acutish becoming obtuse, loose, 1-1.7 cm. thick, the axis 1-7 cm. long; bracts oval-ovate, deciduous, 1-1.4 mm. long; pedicels 1.4-2.2 mm. long; flowers rosy-purplish; sepals oval, glabrous, rounded, 1.6-2.2 mm. long; wings oval or oval-oblong, 5-5.2 mm. long, 2.3-3.4 mm. wide, broadly rounded or emarginulate, euneate or cuneateunguiculate at base, glabrous, about 7-nerved; keel 4-4.6 mm. long, the crest on each side of a lamella and 2 several-parted lobes; capsule oblong, 4.1-4.3 mm. long, 1.8-2 mm. wide; seed ellipsoid-cylindrie, short-pilose, 3.2-3.5 mm. long; aril 2-2.5 mm. deep, the umbo corneous, grading into the 2 obovate appressed scarious lobes.
Type locality: Frostproof, Polk County, Florida. Distribution: Orange, Lake, and Polk counties, Florida.