fringed loosestrife
(Lysimachia ciliata)
Conservation • Wetland • Description • Habitat • Ecology • Use • Distribution • Taxonomy
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| IUCN Red List | not listed |
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| NatureServe | N5 - Secure SNR - Unranked |
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| Minnesota | not listed |
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| Great Plains | FACW - Facultative wetland |
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| Midwest | FACW - Facultative wetland |
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| Northcentral & Northeast | FACW - Facultative wetland |
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Description |
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Fringed loosestrife is a 10″ to 50″ tall, erect, perennial forb that rises from from a long, slender, horizontal, creeping, underground stem (rhizome). The stems are more or less erect and usually unbranched, sometimes sparingly branched above the middle. They are hairless and may be round or square. There are no basal leaves. Stem leaves are opposite, lance-shaped to egg-shaped, 1½″ to 5½″ long, and ⅝″ to 2⅜″ wide. They are on 3 ⁄16″ to 2⅜″ long, conspicuously hairy leaf stalks. The leaf blades taper to a point at the tip and are rounded, wedge-shaped, or slightly heart-shaped at the base. The upper surface is dark green or bright green and hairless. The lower surface is pale green and hairless. The leaf surfaces are not dotted. The margins are untoothed and have a fringe of long hairs along their entire length. The inflorescence is a single flower nodding at the end of a hairless, ⅝″ to 2⅜″ long stalk that rises from middle and upper leaf axils. The flowers are ⅓″ to 1″ wide. There are 5 green sepals united into a tube (calyx) with 5 narrowly lance-shaped, ⅛″ to ⅜″ long lobes. The calyx lobes have 3 to 5 parallel, often reddish-brown veins. There are 5 widely spreading, egg-shaped to round, 3 ⁄16″ to ½″ long, ⅛″ to ⅜″ wide petals. The petals are yellow and sometimes reddish at the base. They taper abruptly at the tip to a long, slender point. There are 5 erect stamens with yellowish anthers and a single green style. The fruit is a hairless, green, shiny, spherical to egg-shaped, 3 ⁄16″ to ¼″ in diameter capsule containing 25 to 40 seeds. |
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Height |
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10″ to 50″ |
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Flower Color |
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Yellow |
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Similar Species |
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| Four-flowered yellow loosestrife (Lysimachia quadriflora) is a smaller plant. The leaves are narrow, linear, no more than ¼″ wide. | ||
Habitat |
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Wet to moist. Deciduous woodlands, swamps, thickets, wet prairies, marshes, stream banks. Full sun to light shade. |
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Ecology |
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Flowering |
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June to July |
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Taxonomy |
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| Kingdom | Plantae (green algae and land plants) | ||
| Subkingdom | Viridiplantae (green plants) | ||
| Infrakingdom | Streptophyta (land plants and green algae) | ||
| Superdivision | Embryophyta (land plants) | ||
| Division | Tracheophyta (vascular plants) | ||
| Subdivision | Spermatophytina (seed plants) / Angiospermae (flowering plants) | ||
| Class | Magnoliopsida (flowering plants) | ||
| Superorder | Asteranae | ||
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Ericales (heathers, balsams, primroses, and allies) | ||
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Primulaceae (primrose) | ||
| Subfamily | Myrsinoideae (cape myrtle) | ||
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Lysimachia (loosestrifes) | ||
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Synonyms |
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Steironema ciliatum Steironema pumilum |
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Common Names |
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fringed loosestrife fringed yellow-loosestrife |
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Glossary
Axil
The upper angle where a branch, stem, leaf stalk, or vein diverges.
Calyx
The group of outer floral leaves (sepals) below the petals, occasionally forming a tube.
Rhizome
A horizontal, usually underground stem. It serves as a reproductive structure, producing roots below and shoots above at the nodes.
Sepal
An outer floral leaf, usually green but sometimes colored, at the base of a flower.
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| MyNature Apps; Identifying Fringed Loosestrife, Lysimachia ciliata MyNatureApps |
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Uploaded on Jul 13, 2011 How to identify Fringed Loosestrife, Lysimachia ciliata. www.mynatureapps.com |
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Uploaded on Sep 11, 2011 Earthyman views Fringed Loosestrife (Lysimachia ciliata) in bloom on Mississippi River wetland in Wisconsin . Seed and plant sold at Ion Exchange native seed and plant nursery in Iowa. http://www.ionxchange.com |
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| Nancy Falkum 7/22/2021 |
Location: Kellogg Weaver Dunes SNA, Weaver Dunes Unit |
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