Lysimachia punctata
Dotted Loosestrife
The Dotted Loosestrife ( Lysimachia punctata), also point loosestrife, Goldfelberich or glandular called loosestrife, is a species in the subfamily Myrsinengewächse ( Myrsinoideae ) within the family of Primrose ( Primulaceae ). It is sometimes cultivated as an ornamental plant in gardens. It differs from similar ordinary loosestrife through her hair and the other form of the inflorescence.
Description
When Dotted Loosestrife is a perennial herbaceous plant that reaches the stature heights between 50 and 100 cm. The most growing groups in plants have an upright and unbranched stems, which is soft hairy.
The threes to fours lively arranged leaves are egg-shaped and dotted with dark hand. Towards the end of the stem leaves are smaller, and the flowers are about three to fours in the leaf axils, but not in small stalked panicles as in ordinary loosestrife. This arrangement is referred to as " flipping through panicle ".
The hermaphrodite flowers are radial symmetry. The sepals are, however, bounded pure green and not red. The glandular ciliated, yellow petals are fused only at the base; at the top they are sometimes reddish in color. The flowering period extends over the entire summer.
Occurrence
The Dotted Loosestrife comes from Turkey and southern Europe. Since he is perfectly hardy, but he is often cultivated in Central Europe in gardens and is often neglected before, in Germany for example, everywhere except in the far northeast.
It grows at quite different locations as not to shady and moist forest edges, river banks, in gorse heaths or along roadsides.