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	AllRefer.com - milkwort, Plant (Plants) - Encyclopedia
		milkwort, common name for the Polygalaceae, a family including herbs, shrubs, and trees found in all parts of the world except New Zealand and the polar regions.
		Several milkworts (genus Polygala), perennial herbs, are native to moist habitats of the United States and are sometimes cultivated as ornamentals.
		The milkwort family is classified in the division Magnoliophyta, class Magnoliopsida, order Polygalales.
	reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/M/milkwort.html (165 words)

	Milkwort
		Milkwort is native to Europe, and commonly found in grassy and moorland areas.
		Snakeroot is unearthed in the autumn, while the aerial parts of the Milkwort are gathered when the plant is in flower during the summer.
		Milkwort was so named because it was thought to stimulate breastmilk.
	www.innvista.com /HEALTH/herbs/milkwort.htm (604 words)

	NPWRC :: White Milkwort (Polygala alba)
		White milkwort does not occur in extreme northeastern North Dakota, but can he found from Washington and the Prairie Provinces southward to Mexico.
		White milkwort is a member of the milkwort family (Polygalaceae).
		White milkwort was described for science in 1818 by the great English botanist Thomas Nuttall, who worked at Fort Lisa in what now is Mercer County, North Dakota, in 1811.
	www.npwrc.usgs.gov /resource/plants/wildflwr/species/polyalba.htm (220 words)

	Cross-Leaved Milkwort (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Along a path in the Hooper Branch Savanna Nature Preserve in Iroquois County, Illinois, where Cross-Leaved Milkwort occurred in a moist sand prairie that was somewhat shrubby and sunny moist areas of Black Oak Savanna.
		Cross-Leaved Milkwort is relatively easy to identify because of the bract-like wings that spread horizontally (left and right) from the center of each flower.
		In other species of Milkwort, these wings are held upright and resemble petals.
	www.illinoiswildflowers.info /prairie/plantx/cross_milkwortx.htm (451 words)

	Natural Heritage Program - Cross-Leaved Milkwort
		With only a few known populations surviving, Cross-leaved Milkwort is Threatened in the state.
		A State Threatened species is one whose existence is likely to become endangered, and in jeopardy in Maryland.
		Several utility companies are working with the Maryland Natural Heritage Program to manage rights-of-way to protect Cross-leaved Milkwort and dozens of other rare plants.
	www.dnr.state.md.us /wildlife/rtexlmilkwort.asp (136 words)

	Milkwort, Purple Polygala - Flowers
		Plants of this genus were named polygala, the Greek for much milk, not because they have milky juice—for it is bitter and clear—but because feeding on them is supposed to increase the flow of cattle's milk.
		In sandy swamps, especially near the coast from Maine to the Gulf, and westward to the Mississippi, grows the Marsh or Cross-leaved Milkwort (P. cruciata).
		Most of its leaves, especially the lower ones, are in whorls of four, and from July to September its dense, bright purple-pink, white, or greenish flower-heads, the wings awn-pointed, are seated on the ends of the square branching stem of this low, mossy little plant.
	www.oldandsold.com /articles19/flowers-79.shtml (282 words)

	Nearctica - Eastern Wildflowers - Primulaceae - Sea Milkwort (Glaux maritima)
		Habitat: Sea Milkwort is found in salt marshes and brackish marshes.
		Similar Species: Sea Milkwort could be superficially confused with some species in the family Euphorbiaceae.
		However the flower is a typical white flower with 5 petals without the complicated structure of the euphorb flower.
	www.nearctica.com /flowers/otos/primula/Gmarit.htm (133 words)

	Milkwort - LoveToKnow 1911
		MILKWORT, in botany, the common name for plants of the genus Polygala (natural order Polygalaceae), a large genus widely dispersed in temperate and tropical regions and represented by a few species in Britain.
		Sea milkwort is the common name for Glaux maritima, a small succulent herb found on seashores and in estuaries in the British Isles; it belongs to the primrose order (Primulaceae) After Berg and Schmidt, from Strasburger's Lehrbuch der Botanik, by permission of Gustav Fischer.
		This page was last modified 02:10, 29 Aug 2006.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /Milkwort (210 words)

	Nearctica - Eastern Wildflowers - Polygalaceae - Short-leaved Milkwort (Polygala brevifolia)
		Habitat: Short-leaved Milkwort is found in sandy swamps and sandy bogs.
		Similar Species: Short-leaved Milkwort is similar to Cross-leaved Milkwort.
		The flower heads of Cross-leaved Milkwort have short flower stalks and often appear to be nearly sessile to the first pair of leaves.
	www.nearctica.com /flowers/otos/polygal/Pbrevi.htm (141 words)

	Polygalaceae (Milkwort Family) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Fabaceae (Pea or Legume) family, Milkwort flowers are really very different.
		The side sepals are larger than the others and colored like the petals, and the uppermost sepal is keeled (ridged in a way that resembles two connected petals or sepals.) There are 3 petals, united at the base, with the lower one boat-shaped and enclosing the 8 stamens and the pistil style.
		The fruit forming part of the pistil is partitioned into 2 halves, with each producing a single seed.
	plants.montara.com /ListPages/FamPages/Polygala.html (194 words)

	Natural Heritage Program - RTE Species of the Month - Cross-Leaved Milkwort (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		With only a few known populations surviving, Cross-leaved Milkwort is Threatened in the state.
		Because it prefers open habitats, this plant sometimes grows in the clearings under power lines where the soil and hydrology are suitable.
		Cross-leaved Milkwort blooms in mid- to late- summer with clusters of rose-purple flowers.
	www.dnr.state.md.us /wildlife/rtexlmilkwort.html (152 words)

	Polygala vulgaris - Common Milkwort (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		The flowers are usually bright blue but some, as in the example shown here, are much paler.
		Deep purple milkwort and white milkwort can also be found in places.
		The first flowers appear in May, and common milkwort can be seen still blooming in Wales as late as September.
	www.first-nature.com /flowers/polygala_vulgaris.htm (68 words)

	FDEP Featured Plants: Tall Milkwort
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		This yellow flowering milkwort was described by Thomas Walter from the coastal plain of South Carolina in 1788.
		In Florida it is often found in depressional wetlands, cypress swamps, savannas, and in hydric pine flatwoods, usually in shallow water, throughout the state south to the Highlands county area.
	dep.state.fl.us /WATER/wetlands/delineation/featuredplants/polcym.htm (205 words)

	Orange Milkwort, Polygala lutea, a native plant and wildflower (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Orange Milkwort, Polygala lutea, a native plant and wildflower
		It's also known as the Orange Milkwort to native plant enthusiasts.
		Actual size of the flower cluster is about one to almost two inches.
	www.pitcherplant.com /images_2/polygal_page.html (44 words)

	Curtiss' Milkwort (Polygala curtissii)
		Curtiss' Milkwort is also known as Appalachian Milkwort.
		Curtiss' Milkwort (Polygala curtissii) - habit © Daniel Reed
		USDA Plants - Polygala curtissii Gray Curtiss' milkwort
	2bnthewild.com /plants/H473.htm (356 words)

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		A fourth study, this one conducted in China, found that an herbal extract improved cognitive function in people with mild cognitive impairment, often a precursor to Alzheimer's.
		The extract, known as GETO (for ginseng, epimedium herb, thinleaf milkwort root and two other herbs), has been used for centuries in traditional Chinese medicine.
		Finally, a study out of Japan's University of Tsukuba found that an exercise program incorporating low-intensity calisthenics also improved memory in elderly people with mild cognitive impairment.
	www.alzheimersissues.com /ms/news/526386/main.html (961 words)

	Milkwort - definition from Biology-Online.org
		The common European P. vulgaris was supposed to have the power of producing a flow of milk in nurses.
		The species of Campanula, or bellflower, are sometimes called milkwort, from their juice.
		This page was last modified 21:16, 3 October 2005.
	www.biology-online.org /dictionary/Milkwort (122 words)

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