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Which family of Fabales is known as the milkwort family?

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Yellow partridge pea — Fabales A flowering stalk of yellow partridge pea (*Chamaecrista fasciculata*) in the eastern United States.

Within the order Fabales, the family known as the milkwort family is Polygalaceae.12

It is the second largest family within the order, comprising approximately 29 genera and 1,230 species that are distributed globally, with the exception of the Arctic and New Zealand. The genus Polygala accounts for about one-third of the species within this family.2