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7b. Flowers (keel) 11-15 mm. long; leaves thin or 

 slightly coriaceous; stems prostrate or laxly 

 climbing. Throughout; common. [G. glabella 

 Michx.; G. macreei M. A. Curtis; G regularis, 

 misapplied] var. volubilis 



7b. Flowers (keel) 13-21 mm. long; leaves somewhat 

 coriaceous; stems vigorously climbing (but usually 

 without twining). West-central peninsula (Lake, 

 Levy Cos.); rare. 



var. baltzelliana D. B. Ward & D. W. Hall 



3. Stems climbing, twining; flowers (keel) 7-14 mm. long. 



8. Mature fruits 5.5-9 mm. broad, clearly falcate; stems woody, 

 high climbing; flowers red-violet; twining perennial herb. 

 Brushy coastal thickets, pinelands. South peninsula (north 

 along west coast, to Lee County); locally frequent. All year. 

 [G spiciformis Torr. & Gray] 



Galactia striata (Jacq.) Urban 



8. Mature fruits less than 6 mm. broad, straight or slightly falcate; 

 stems not woody, not very high climbing. 



9. Leaflets with long soft sometimes matted hairs on both 

 surfaces; calyx long-pubescent; petals dark red to rose-purple, 

 drying dusky rose; ovary and pod densely pubescent with long 

 soft hairs; twining perennial herb. Dry sands of high 

 pinelands. North Florida, from mid-panhandle (Franklin 

 Co.), to east coast (Duval Co.); infrequent. Spring-summer. 



Galactia mollis Michx. 



9. Leaflets with stiff appressed or spreading short hairs, or 

 glabrous above; calyx appressed to spreading short-pubescent; 

 petals pink to purple, drying white to variously purple (but not 

 dusky rose); ovary and pod with stiff appressed to spreading 

 short hairs. 



