YELLOW LOOSESTRIFE
Lysimachia vulgaris
Myrsine [Myrsinaceae] 
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Myrsine [Myrsinaceae]
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| 24th April 2006, Huddy Narrow Canal, Greenfield. | Photo: © RWD |
| Tall, to 1.5m high, flower stalks peel off just above leaves. |
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| 24th April 2006, Huddy Narrow Canal, Greenfield. | Photo: © RWD |
| Conspicuously branched with many thin flowering stalks foming a conical spike. |
| 9th Aug 2011, Huddy Narrow Canal, Greenfield. | Photo: © RWD |
| Leaves scarcely stalked, lanceolate and in whorls (of three's as here, or in four's) |
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| 5th Sept 2011, Huddy Narrow Canal, Greenfield. | Photo: © RWD |
| A single flowering spike, conical in structure. |
| 9th Aug 2011, Huddy Narrow Canal, Greenfield. | Photo: © RWD |
Five yellow tapered petals, supposedly with pale spots but lacking the orange striations of Lake Loosestrife. Flowers without orange splodge in the centre unlike Whorled Loosestrifeor Fringed Loosestrife. Petals not fringed with hairs like Fringed Loosestrife. Five stamens, deeper yellow pollen. |
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| 9th Aug 2011, Huddy Narrow Canal, Greenfield. | Photo: © RWD |
| Five sepals, shorter than the fruit, and with orange to red edgees. Stems with downy hairs. |
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| 9th Aug 2011, Huddy Narrow Canal, Greenfield. | Photo: © RWD |
| Leaves in whorls up the stem |
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| 24th April 2006, Huddy Narrow Canal, Greenfield. | Photo: © RWD |
Leaves supposedly with black or orange dots although not visible here. Leaves without the downy margins or dots on the underside of Dotted Loosestrife. |
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| 9th Aug 2011, Huddy Narrow Canal, Greenfield. | Photo: © RWD |
| The whorls of stem leaves can be either in three's, or in four's, as here. |
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Easily confused with : other No relation to : Purple Loosestrife [a plant with similar name but which belongs to a different family, the Loosestrife Family (the Yellow Loosestrifes belong to the Myrsine Family). Inhabits marshes, ditches, fens, lakesides riversides and canalsides. ANY TEXT GOES HERE |
 Lysimachia (Loosestrifes) |
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Myrsine [Myrsinaceae]
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