Pea Shrub family : POLYGALACEAE (ROSIDAE) in Australia

Flower Families

Don Herbison-Evans (donherbisonevans@yahoo.com) & Christine Ashe

Plant Classes

Comesperma sphaerocarpum Broom Milkwort Wonboyn, NSW Photo: courtesy of Paul Whitington

Comesperma volubile Love Creeper Morwell Park, October 1990

Polygala myrtifolia Sweet Pea Shrub Sydney, August 2006

Polygala virgata Purple Broom Sydney, December 2006

We know of no caterpillars of Lepidoptera in Australia that feed on plants from POLYGALACEAE.

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Australian butterflies

Australian Lepidoptera

Australian moths

(updated 4 January 2013, 22 February 2016)