View source for Lysimachia punctata

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|accepted_name=Lysimachia punctata
|accepted_authority=Linnaeus
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Sp. Pl.
|place=1: 147. 1753 ,
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|common_names=Spotted or large loosestrife;lysimaque ponctuée
|special_status={{Treatment/ID/Special_status
|code=W
|label=Weedy
}}{{Treatment/ID/Special_status
|code=I
|label=Introduced
}}
|basionyms=
|synonyms=
|hierarchy=Myrsinaceae;Lysimachia;Lysimachia punctata
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Myrsinaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Lysimachia]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>species</small>[[Lysimachia punctata]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 8
|mention_page=page 309, 310
|treatment_page=page 315
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Stems </b>erect, usually simple, 1.5–10 dm, sparsely stipitate-glandular and pubescent; rhizomes slender to thickened; bulblets absent. <b>Leaves</b> usually whorled; petiole 0.5–1.6 cm, eciliate; blade lanceolate or ovate, 5–10 × 1–4 cm, base rounded to obtuse, decurrent, margins entire, plane, pubescent, apex acute, surfaces reddish-punctate at least marginally or apically, stipitate-glandular and densely pubescent; venation pinnate. <b>Inflorescences</b> axillary, solitary flowers or verticils. <b>Pedicels</b> 1–3.5 cm, pubescent and sometimes also stipitate-glandular. <b>Flowers</b>: sepals 5, calyx not streaked, 5–8 mm, stipitate-glandular at least apically, lobes narrowly lanceolate, margins thin; petals 5, corolla yellow, not streaked, rotate, 12–19.5 mm, lobes with margins entire, apex acute to rounded, stipitate-glandular marginally and sometimes also distally; filaments connate 2–2.5 mm, shorter than corolla; staminodes absent. <b>Capsules</b> 4–5.5 mm, dark reddish-punctate, glabrous. <b>2n</b> = 30.</span><!--

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|phenology=Flowering summer.
|habitat=Old fields, roadsides, stream banks
|elevation=0-600 m
|distribution=B.C.;N.B.;Nfld. and Labr. (Nfld.);N.S.;Ont.;Que.;Conn.;Del.;Ill.;Iowa;Maine;Md.;Mass.;Mich.;N.H.;N.J.;N.Y.;N.C.;Ohio;Oreg.;Pa.;R.I.;Vt.;Wis.;Europe.
|introduced=true
|discussion=<p><i>Lysimachia punctata</i> has been collected as an adventive on Prince Edward Island and once in Nebraska in 1971 from a colony that has been extirpated; it is often grown as an ornamental.</p>
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-->{{#Taxon:
name=Lysimachia punctata
|authority=Linnaeus
|rank=species
|parent rank=genus
|synonyms=
|basionyms=
|family=Myrsinaceae
|phenology=Flowering summer.
|habitat=Old fields, roadsides, stream banks
|elevation=0-600 m
|distribution=B.C.;N.B.;Nfld. and Labr. (Nfld.);N.S.;Ont.;Que.;Conn.;Del.;Ill.;Iowa;Maine;Md.;Mass.;Mich.;N.H.;N.J.;N.Y.;N.C.;Ohio;Oreg.;Pa.;R.I.;Vt.;Wis.;Europe.
|introduced=true
|reference=None
|publication title=Sp. Pl.
|publication year=
|special status=Weedy;Introduced
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|genus=Lysimachia
|species=Lysimachia punctata
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