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Goat-rues
Galega
Galega (goat's rue) is a genus of flowering plants in the legume family, Fabaceae, native to central and southern Europe, western Asia and tropical east Africa. They are tall, bushy, herbaceous perennials with erect racemes of pea-like flowers in shades of white, pink, blue or mauve. Their preferred habitats are sunny damp meadows or slopes.
7 branches of this genus, most-observed first
common milkpea
speciesGalega officinalis
Eastern Goat's-rue
speciesGalega orientalis
Galega cirujanoi
speciesGalega cirujanoi
Galega africana
speciesGalega africana
Galega lindblomii
speciesGalega lindblomii
Galega somalensis
speciesGalega somalensis
Galega battiscombei
speciesGalega battiscombei
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
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geo-referenced records in GBIF, from museums, herbaria and field observers.
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In the old herbals & bestiaries
Commentaries on the Six Books of Pedanius Dioscorides on Medical Matter
Pietro Andrea Mattioli · 1565 · p.911
Commentaries on the Six Books of Dioscorides
Pietro Andrea Mattioli · 1560 · p.758
Commentaries on the Six Books of Dioscorides
Pietro Andrea Mattioli · 1560 · p.774
Commentaries on the Six Books of Dioscorides on Medical Matter
Pietro Andrea Mattioli · 1563 · p.689
A New Herbal, or History of Plants
Rembert Dodoens (trans. Henry Lyte) · 1578 · p.515
Six Groups of the History of Plants
Rembert Dodoens · 1583 · p.559
Rariorum Plantarum Historia (with Fungorum Historia)
Carolus Clusius · 1601 · p.615
Introductio Generalis in Rem Herbariam
Augustus Quirinus Rivinus · 1690 · p.315
Christoph Jakob Trew — Uitgezochte planten (1771)
Christoph Jakob Trew · 1771 · p.281
Herbarium Portatile, Oder Behendes Kräuter- und Gewächs-Buch: Darinn nicht allein 1363. so wol Einheimische als Außländndische Kräuter mit Lateinisch und Deutscher Benennung abgebildet, sondern auch die meisten, so in der Medicin gebräuchlich, kürtzlich erkläret werden
Panckow, Thomas · 1656 · p.105
In the stacks
Searching the stacks…
Every page naming Galega in the Biodiversity Heritage Library →
This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 157398.