Found 2 items, similar to Polygala paucifolia.
English → English (WordNet)
Definition: Polygala paucifolia
Polygala paucifolia
n : common trailing perennial milkwort of eastern North America
having leaves like wintergreen and usually rosy-purple
flowers with winged sepals [syn:
flowering wintergreen,
gaywings,
bird-on-the-wing,
fringed polygala]
English → English (gcide)
Definition: Polygala paucifolia
gay-wings
\gay-wings\ n.
A common trailing perennial milkwort (
Polygala paucifolia)
of eastern North America having leaves like wintergreen and
usually rosy-purple flowers with winged sepals.
Syn: flowering wintergreen, gaywings, bird-on-the-wing,
fringed polygala,
Polygala paucifolia.
[WordNet 1.5]
gay-wings
\gay-wings\ n.
A common trailing perennial milkwort (
Polygala paucifolia)
of eastern North America having leaves like wintergreen and
usually rosy-purple flowers with winged sepals.
Syn: flowering wintergreen, gaywings, bird-on-the-wing,
fringed polygala,
Polygala paucifolia.
[WordNet 1.5]
Wintergreen
\Win"ter*green`\, n. (Bot.)
A plant which keeps its leaves green through the winter.
[1913 Webster]
Note: In England, the name wintergreen is applied to the
species of
Pyrola which in America are called
English wintergreen, and
shin leaf (see Shin leaf,
under
Shin.) In America, the name wintergreen is
given to
Gaultheria procumbens, a low evergreen
aromatic plant with oval leaves clustered at the top of
a short stem, and bearing small white flowers followed
by red berries; -- called also
checkerberry, and
sometimes, though improperly,
partridge berry.
[1913 Webster]
Chickweed wintergreen, a low perennial primulaceous herb
(
Trientalis Americana); -- also called
star flower.
Flowering wintergreen, a low plant (
Polygala paucifolia)
with leaves somewhat like those of the wintergreen
(
Gaultheria), and bearing a few showy, rose-purple
blossoms.
Spotted wintergreen, a low evergreen plant (
Chimaphila maculata
) with ovate, white-spotted leaves.
[1913 Webster]
bird-on-the-wing
\bird-on-the-wing\ n.
a common trailing perennial milkwort of eastern North America
(
Polygala paucifolia), having leaves like wintergreen and
usually rosy-purple flowers with winged sepals.
Syn: flowering wintergreen, gaywings, gay-wings, fringed
polygala.
[WordNet 1.5]