Common name:
Dotted loosestrife
Family:
Scientific name:
Lysimachia punctata
Main flower color:
Range:
Scattered areas across most of the UK; an introduced species
Height:
Up to 120 cm
Habitat:
Meadows, hedgebanks, roadsides
Flowers:
Up to 35 mm in diameter; five ovate yellow petals (light purple-brown at the base) and a calyx divided into five narrow lobes, not orange along the margins, Calyces, stalks and stems have a covering of very short, glandular hairs
Leaves:
Ovate, evergreen, up to 12 cm long, on short stalks, in opposite pairs or whorls (up to five), not black-dotted
Season:
July to October
Rarity:
★★★★★
