Family: Primulaceae,
Primrose
Genus: Lysimachia
Description
General: perennial, 30-120 cm tall, stems unbranched,
from creeping rhizomes.
 Leaves: opposite or whorled, the blades of the middle
ones 5-15 cm long and 3-6 cm broad, ovate to broadly
lanceolate, abruptly pointed, finely hairy-toothed on the
edges, rounded to cordate at the base. Stalks 5-20 mm
long, usually conspicuously long-hairy on edges.
 Flowers: single from leaf axils, the stalks slender,
arched, 3-8 cm long. The 5 sepals lanceolate-pointed, 5-7
mm long. The 5 corolla lobes more or less obovate, about
1 cm long, fringed on the edges and rounded but abruptly
point-tipped, densely granular-short-hairy near the base
within. The 5 filaments shorter than the anthers, not joined,
short-hairy like the corolla, the anthers about 3 mm long.
The 5 small staminodia simple.
Flowering time: June-August.
 Fruits: capsules with 5 valves, ovoid, many-seeded,
about equal to the sepals.
Distribution
Damp meadows, ponds, and along streams, in w., c. and
n.e. parts of MT. Rather general in temperate N. America,
in our area also in OR e. of the Cascades. |
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