gaywings

from WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)

gaywings
    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}, {bird-on-the-wing}, {fringed polygala},
         {Polygala paucifolia}]

from The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

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]