The open plant encyclopedia
Snap a photo or search by any name to see how to care for it, where it comes from, whether it's safe, and a 3D model you can turn.
The plants people record most in your country, and ones that grow there wild.
Filter by what you want to do, shape, origin, country, care and safety.
Galactia
Also called Milkpeas
Galactia is a genus of plants in the legume family (Fabaceae). It belongs to the subfamily Faboideae and tribe Diocleae They do not have an unambiguous common name, being commonly called milk peas, beach peas or wild peas. They are perennial herbs or subshrubs with prostrate, climbing, or erect forms.
The genus contains 99 species which range through the Americas from New York and Arizona to northern Argentina, in tropical Africa and Madagascar, in south and southeast Asia, southern China, and Japan, and in the Philippines, eastern Indonesia, New Guinea, and Australia.
Erect Milkpea · Elliott's milkpea · Erect milkpea · Soft milkpea · Eastern milkpea · Small's milkpea · Galactia tenuiflora · Downy milkpea
Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Galactia by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts are shared under the same licence.
