PRIMULACE^E 



PRIMULACEJE PRIMROSE FAMILY 



Lysimachia terrestris, (L.) BSP. 



Yellow Upright Loosestrife, 



Bulb-bearing Loosestrife, 

 June-August Swamp Candles. 



Lysimachia: for derivation see quadrifolia. 

 Terrestris: Latin for the land form. 



THE PREFERRED HABITAT: swamps. 



THE PLANT: erect, eight inches to two feet high, simple or 

 branched, with somewhat erect branches; after flowering 

 often bearing bulblets in the axils; stem light yellow-green, 

 smooth. 



THE LEAVES: opposite, rarely alternate; lanceolate or 

 oblong-lanceolate; one to three inches long; hairless on 

 both surfaces; acute or tapering to a point at both ends; 

 on short stems or sessile; the margins rolled backward; 

 usually with black, translucent glandular dots; entire; the 

 mid-rib particularly prominent below. 



THE FLOWERS: on slender stems in a terminal bracted 

 raceme or some of them solitary or two or three together 

 in the upper axils; stems slender or thread-like; five sepals 

 ovate or lanceolate, acute; the corolla star-shaped, deeply 

 five-parted, the lobes alternating with the sepals, later 

 bending backward, with red-purple streaks or dots at the 

 centre, wavy; the five stamens prominent, standing in 

 front of the petals. 



THE FRUIT: a capsule. 



A tall, delicate plant of the damp ground, that has a 

 smooth, clean green stem, numerous lance-shaped and 

 slightly drooping leaves and striking yellow flowers. These 

 have sharply pointed petals that have a dark ring of double 

 red spots at the centre. The stamens and pistil project 

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