bird-on-the-wing (n.)

  1. common trailing perennial milkwort of eastern North America having leaves like wintergreen and usually rosy-purple flowers with winged sepals

    [ Syn: flowering wintergreen , gaywings , fringed polygala , polygala paucifolia ]

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