Photo
Credit - Karen Major
The Fringed Polygala or Gaywings
grows 8 - 15 cm tall in dry to moist, sandy to clay based pine stands and
conifer swamps. The flower is rose-purple to white with three petals
that join into a tube. It flowers in May/June with 6mm capsules forming
in June/July. This plant spreads from rhizomes. Credit
- Karen Major
Gaywings or Fringed Polygala is not an orchid but a member of the milkwort family. This May flower looks a lot like a violet. Four leaves are arranged around the base of the flowers and the two flowers are carried on an almost leafless stem.
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