Index / Search / Polygala alba
§1 Plant
Polygala alba Nutt.
vernacular white milkwort — species · Polygalaceae
§2Habit & range
Habit and range
- Growth habit
- Forb/herb
- Duration
- Perennial
- Group
- Dicot
- Family
- Polygalaceae Hoffmanns. & Link
- Genus
- Polygala
§2a
Native status, by region
- CAN Canada Native
- L48 Lower 48 States Native
§2b
County-level range
· 338 counties across 11 states/territories§3Cultivation
No cultivation specs.
USDA has not characterised this taxon. Roughly four out of five plants in the database lack the detailed cultivation record present here — typically because they have not been the focus of NRCS Plant Materials work. Range and distribution data are unaffected.
§4Counties, by state
Recorded in 338 counties across 11 states/territories.
Arizona view state ↗ 7 N ▾
Colorado view state ↗ 9 N ▾
Kansas view state ↗ 54 N ▾
- Barber 20007
- Barton 20009
- Cheyenne 20023
- Clark 20025
- Clay 20027
- Cloud 20029
- Comanche 20033
- Decatur 20039
- Ellis 20051
- Ellsworth 20053
- Finney 20055
- Ford 20057
- Franklin 20059
- Gove 20063
- Graham 20065
- Grant 20067
- Gray 20069
- Greeley 20071
- Hamilton 20075
- Harper 20077
- Haskell 20081
- Hodgeman 20083
- Jewell 20089
- Kearny 20093
- Kiowa 20097
- Lane 20101
- Lincoln 20105
- Logan 20109
- Lyon 20111
- Meade 20119
- Mitchell 20123
- Morton 20129
- Ness 20135
- Norton 20137
- Osborne 20141
- Pawnee 20145
- Phillips 20147
- Pratt 20151
- Rawlins 20153
- Republic 20157
- Rooks 20163
- Rush 20165
- Russell 20167
- Scott 20171
- Seward 20175
- Sheridan 20179
- Sherman 20181
- Smith 20183
- Stanton 20187
- Thomas 20193
- Trego 20195
- Wallace 20199
- Washington 20201
- Wichita 20203
Montana view state ↗ 20 N ▾
Nebraska view state ↗ 30 N ▾
- Box Butte 31013
- Brown 31017
- Buffalo 31019
- Cedar 31027
- Chase 31029
- Cherry 31031
- Cheyenne 31033
- Custer 31041
- Dawes 31045
- Dixon 31051
- Franklin 31061
- Frontier 31063
- Furnas 31065
- Garden 31069
- Gosper 31073
- Harlan 31083
- Hayes 31085
- Hitchcock 31087
- Jefferson 31095
- Kearney 31099
- Keith 31101
- Keya Paha 31103
- Kimball 31105
- Lincoln 31111
- Morrill 31123
- Phelps 31137
- Red Willow 31145
- Sioux 31165
- Washington 31177
- Webster 31181
New Mexico view state ↗ 13 N ▾
North Dakota view state ↗ 35 N ▾
- Adams 38001
- Billings 38007
- Bowman 38011
- Burke 38013
- Burleigh 38015
- Dickey 38021
- Divide 38023
- Dunn 38025
- Emmons 38029
- Golden Valley 38033
- Grant 38037
- Hettinger 38041
- Kidder 38043
- LaMoure 38045
- Logan 38047
- McHenry 38049
- McIntosh 38051
- McKenzie 38053
- McLean 38055
- Mercer 38057
- Morton 38059
- Mountrail 38061
- Oliver 38065
- Pierce 38069
- Ransom 38073
- Renville 38075
- Sargent 38081
- Sheridan 38083
- Sioux 38085
- Slope 38087
- Stark 38089
- Stutsman 38093
- Ward 38101
- Wells 38103
- Williams 38105
Oklahoma view state ↗ 29 N ▾
- Beaver 40007
- Beckham 40009
- Carter 40019
- Cimarron 40025
- Cleveland 40027
- Comanche 40031
- Custer 40039
- Dewey 40043
- Ellis 40045
- Garvin 40049
- Grady 40051
- Greer 40055
- Harmon 40057
- Harper 40059
- Johnston 40069
- Kiowa 40075
- Love 40085
- Major 40093
- Marshall 40095
- McClain 40087
- Murray 40099
- Oklahoma 40109
- Roger Mills 40129
- Stephens 40137
- Texas 40139
- Tillman 40141
- Washita 40149
- Woods 40151
- Woodward 40153
South Dakota view state ↗ 35 N ▾
- Bennett 46007
- Brown 46013
- Campbell 46021
- Charles Mix 46023
- Codington 46029
- Corson 46031
- Custer 46033
- Day 46037
- Dewey 46041
- Fall River 46047
- Haakon 46055
- Harding 46063
- Hughes 46065
- Hutchinson 46067
- Jackson 46071
- Jerauld 46073
- Kingsbury 46077
- Lake 46079
- Lawrence 46081
- Lyman 46085
- McPherson 46089
- Meade 46093
- Mellette 46095
- Pennington 46103
- Perkins 46105
- Potter 46107
- Spink 46115
- Stanley 46117
- Sully 46119
- Todd 46121
- Tripp 46123
- Turner 46125
- Walworth 46129
- Yankton 46135
- Ziebach 46137
Texas view state ↗ 101 N ▾
- Andrews 48003
- Aransas 48007
- Armstrong 48011
- Bailey 48017
- Bandera 48019
- Bastrop 48021
- Bee 48025
- Bell 48027
- Blanco 48031
- Bosque 48035
- Brazos 48041
- Brewster 48043
- Briscoe 48045
- Brooks 48047
- Brown 48049
- Burleson 48051
- Burnet 48053
- Callahan 48059
- Cameron 48061
- Carson 48065
- Childress 48075
- Comal 48091
- Coryell 48099
- Cottle 48101
- Crockett 48105
- Crosby 48107
- Culberson 48109
- Dallam 48111
- Deaf Smith 48117
- Denton 48121
- DeWitt 48123
- Dickens 48125
- Dimmit 48127
- Donley 48129
- Duval 48131
- El Paso 48141
- Ellis 48139
- Erath 48143
- Fayette 48149
- Fisher 48151
- Floyd 48153
- Frio 48163
- Garza 48169
- Gillespie 48171
- Goliad 48175
- Gray 48179
- Grimes 48185
- Hamilton 48193
- Hansford 48195
- Hartley 48205
- Hays 48209
- Hemphill 48211
- Hidalgo 48215
- Hudspeth 48229
- Hutchinson 48233
- Jackson 48239
- Jim Hogg 48247
- Jim Wells 48249
- Johnson 48251
- Karnes 48255
- Kendall 48259
- Kenedy 48261
- Kent 48263
- Kerr 48265
- Kleberg 48273
- Lamb 48279
- Lampasas 48281
- Lipscomb 48295
- Live Oak 48297
- Lubbock 48303
- Marion 48315
- Maverick 48323
- McLennan 48309
- Midland 48329
- Mills 48333
- Motley 48345
- Nolan 48353
- Ochiltree 48357
- Oldham 48359
- Parker 48367
- Parmer 48369
- Pecos 48371
- Potter 48375
- Randall 48381
- Reagan 48383
- Refugio 48391
- Roberts 48393
- Scurry 48415
- Sherman 48421
- Tarrant 48439
- Taylor 48441
- Tom Green 48451
- Travis 48453
- Victoria 48469
- Webb 48479
- Wheeler 48483
- Wichita 48485
- Willacy 48489
- Williamson 48491
- Wise 48497
- Zavala 48507
§5Sources & provenance
USDA PLANTS
Symbol, taxonomy, distribution, cultivation specs, native status. Public domain.
plants.usda.gov/POAL4 ↗GBIF Backbone
Canonical taxonomic identity, synonym resolution, cross-refs. CC0.
gbif.org/species/3191442 ↗Record version
Cached and built locally. Source version on this record:
usda-plants-mt-2026-05-26
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