1. Common trailing perennial milkwort of eastern North America having leaves like wintergreen and usually rosy-purple flowers with winged sepals
   "fringed polygala spread across the forest floor like tiny purple butterflies"; "Polygala paucifolia spread across the forest floor like tiny purple butterflies";
   - flowering wintergreen, gaywings, bird-on-the-wing, Polygala paucifolia

1. Type genus of the Polygalaceae: milkwort, senega, snakeroot
   - genus Polygala

Type of: milkwort, rosid dicot genus

Part of: family Polygalaceae, milkwort family, Polygalaceae

Encyclopedia: Fringed polygala