Lysimachia punctata
{{Short description|Species of flowering plant in the primrose family Primulaceae}}
{{For| the similar plant|Lysimachia vulgaris}}
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Lysimachia punctata, the dotted loosestrife,{{BSBI 2007 |access-date=2014-10-17 }} large yellow loosestrife,{{PLANTS|id=LYPU2|taxon=Lysimachia punctata|access-date=27 January 2016}} circle flower,{{Cite web|url=http://www.gardening.cornell.edu/homegardening/scened5c9-2.html|title=Explore Cornell - Home Gardening - Flower Growing Guides - Growing Guide}} or spotted loosestrife, is a flowering plant species in the family Primulaceae.
Description
Lysimachia punctata is a rhizomatous perennial herbaceous plant growing up to about 1.2m in height. The flowers have five petals, sepals and stamens and are produced in dense groups in the axils of leaves. The leaves are opposite and ovate. Both the leaves and the flower parts are hairy.{{cite book|last=Stace|first=C. A.|author-link = Stace, C. A.|year=2010|title=New Flora of the British Isles|edition=Third|publisher=Cambridge University Press|location = Cambridge, U.K.| isbn=9780521707725}}{{rp|519}} The petals are fringed with hairs and the hairy sepals all-green, without the orange margin of L. vulgaris.{{cite book|last1=Blamey|first1=M.|last2=Fitter|first2=R.|last3=Fitter|first3=A|year=2013|title=Wild flowers of Britain and Ireland|publisher=Bloomsbury Publishing|location=London|isbn=978-1408179505}}{{rp|114}}
Distribution
It is native to SE Europe east to the Caucasus,{{cite web | title=Online atlas of the British and Irish flora |url=http://www.brc.ac.uk/plantatlas/plant/lysimachia-punctata |access-date=20 July 2018 }} introduced as a garden plant and widely naturalized as a garden escape on rough ground, roadsides and damp places.
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Category:Plants described in 1753
Category:Taxa named by Carl Linnaeus
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