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The Common milkwort (Polygala vulgaris) belongs to Polygalaceae (the Milkwort family). It is an evergreen shrub that is native to Europe and northern and central Turkey. This shrub grows in meadows, slopes, forest edges, and it can reach 7-35 cm in height. The stems have many branches and are woody at the base. The basal leaves are spatulate, with rounded apex, while the upper leaves are lanceolate. The blue to violet flowers bloom from May to June. The corolla is usually blue, occasionally bluish violet, rose-red or white, fused at base, tubular, and 3-lobed. The uppermost lobes round-tipped, lowest keel-like, many-lobed at tip. The sepals are five. The internal two are large, petaloid, net-veined, and the outer three are bluish-green, short, narrow.
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