Common name:
Yellow loosestrife
Family:
Scientific name:
Lysimachia vulgaris
Main flower color:
Range:
Most of the UK, except northern Scotland
Height:
Up to 150 cm
Habitat:
Riverbanks, fens, damp grassland
Flowers:
Up to 20 mm in diameter; a cup-shaped corolla with five bright yellow lobes and a calyx divided into five triangular lobes, pointed at the tip and orange along the margins, and sparsely covered with hairs, as are the stalks and stem. Flowers are produced as a series of whorled clusters at the upper leaf nodes
Leaves:
Ovate, stalkless, up to 12 cm, opposite or whorled (up to four), sometimes specked with black dots
Season:
July to August
Rarity:
★★★★★
