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|accepted_name=Polygala scoparioides
|accepted_authority=Chodat
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Mém. Soc. Phys. Genève
|place=31(2): 284, plate 26, figs. 6, 7. 1893
|year=1893
}}
|common_names=Broom milkwort
|basionyms=
|synonyms=
|hierarchy=Polygalaceae;Polygala;Polygala scoparioides
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Polygalaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Polygala]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>species</small>[[Polygala scoparioides]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 10
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Herbs </b>perennial, multi-stemmed, (0.5–)0.9–3(–5) dm, unbranched or sparsely branched distally; from thickened caudex. <b>Stems</b> erect, sometimes very slightly glaucous, puberulent, hairs incurved. <b>Leaves</b> alternate; sessile or subsessile; blade linear-lanceolate, linear, or linear-acicular, (3–)7–15 × 0.6–1.3 mm, base acute, apex acute to acuminate, surfaces subglabrous or glabrous. <b>Racemes</b> loosely cylindric (flowering portion may appear subcapitate from deciduous fruit), (1–)1.5–7.8 ×0.4–0.8 cm; peduncle 0.2–1 cm; bracts deciduous, ovate to lanceolate-ovate. <b>Pedicels</b> 0.5 mm, glabrous. <b>Flowers</b> white, greenish veined, wings with green or purple longitudinal stripe, keel green to purplish brown, (2.7–)2.9–4.7 mm; sepals oblong-ovate, 1.3 mm; wings spatulate-obovate, (2.4–)2.7–4.5 × 1.3–1.6 mm, apex acute to obtuse; keel 2.8 mm, crest 2-parted, with 3 usually divided lobes on each side. <b>Capsules</b> oblong-ellipsoid, 3–4.5 × 1.6–2 mm, abaxial locule not winged, adaxial locule slightly longer, winged, wing very narrow. <b>Seeds</b> 2.5–3 mm, puberulent, coat with rows of pits 0.05 mm wide; aril 1–1.9 mm, lobes (1/2–)2/3 to subequal length of seed. <b>2n</b> = 32, 34.</span><!--

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|phenology=Flowering early spring–late fall.
|habitat=Various substrates, mostly on limestone, open rocky areas in scrub, grasslands, disturbed areas, chaparral, open woodlands.
|elevation=500–1900 m.
|distribution=Ariz.;N.Mex.;Tex.;Mexico (Chihuahua;Coahuila;Nuevo León;San Luis Potosí;Zacatecas).
|discussion=<p>Polygala scoparioides is closely related to other Mexican taxa of the Monninopsis group, such as P. mexicana Moçiño ex Cavanilles, with which it intergrades morphologically.</p>
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name=Polygala scoparioides
|authority=Chodat
|rank=species
|parent rank=genus
|synonyms=
|basionyms=
|family=Polygalaceae
|phenology=Flowering early spring–late fall.
|habitat=Various substrates, mostly on limestone, open rocky areas in scrub, grasslands, disturbed areas, chaparral, open woodlands.
|elevation=500–1900 m.
|distribution=Ariz.;N.Mex.;Tex.;Mexico (Chihuahua;Coahuila;Nuevo León;San Luis Potosí;Zacatecas).
|reference=None
|publication title=Mém. Soc. Phys. Genève
|publication year=1893
|special status=
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|genus=Polygala
|species=Polygala scoparioides
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