Common Names: Orange milkwort,
yellow milkwort, bog cheetos, candyweed, red-hot poker, bog bachelor button
Latin Names: Polygala lutea
Type: Herbaceous
Origin: Native
Description: The plant grows up to 12”
tall. The leaves are around 1” long and thick. Flowers are orange and 0.5-1”
long.
Edible: No info found. Perhaps a tea can be made from the leaves. A relative
(polygala nana) has an edible root.
Other uses: Medicinal. Attracts
butterflies.
Notes: In the wet field in back and typically found in wet sandy soil, bogs,
and swamps. Blooms in June-July. Flowers turn yellow when dried. The Latin word
luteus is a saffron-yellow or yellow/orange. Online says this is a biennial so
that I shouldn’t see flowers the 2nd year. Found blooms the 2nd
year but different plants in a slightly different location. However, it also
says this is plant the likes fires it can only grow without competition. We’ve
mowed this area and just now are letting it go natural so it may disappear over
time.
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| Orange milkwort (June) |
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| Orange milkwort (June) |
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| Orange milkwort (June) |
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| Orange milkwort (April) |
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| Orange milkwort (April) |
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