Vascular Plants of North Carolina
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Account for Northern Seneca Snakeroot - Senega officinalis var. 1   Spach
Members of Polygalaceae:
Members of Senega with account distribution info or public map:
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Section 6 » Family Polygalaceae
AuthorSpach
DistributionMountains and Piedmont only, but details are not well known.

QC west to AB, south to n. GA, TN, AR, and SD (Weakley 2024).
AbundanceProbably rare, to locally uncommon. Abundance levels of the two varieties is not well known, as most herbaria probably have not re-labeled their specimens.
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Taxonomic CommentsThis is the former Polygala senega var. senega.

All of the former Polygala species in NC have now been moved to the genus Senega in 2023.
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State RankS2?
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B.A. SorrieStanly County, 2008, Union Chapel Enon Knolls, mesic rocky woodland. StanlyPhoto_natural
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