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Lysimachia vulgaris (garden yellow loosestrife; garden loosestrife)

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Wikipedia Abstract

Lysimachia vulgaris (garden loosestrife, yellow loosestrife, or garden yellow loosestrife) is a species of herbaceous perennial plants in the genus Lysimachia native to wetlands, damp meadows and forests of Eurasia. It is a 50–150 cm tall plant with an upright habit, blooming from June through August with erect panicles of conspicuous yellow flowers. L. vulgaris is sometimes considered invasive outside of its native range. In Australia growers have now successfully propagated and started growing the white variety in January in Tasmania.
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Infraspecies

Lysimachia vulgaris glandulosovillosa
Lysimachia vulgaris vulgaris (Garden yellow loosestrife)

Attributes

Bee Flower Color [1]  Green
Flower Color [1]  Yellow
Edible [2]  May be edible. See the Plants For A Future link below for details.
Flower Type [2]  Hermaphrodite
Lifespan [2]  Perennial
Pollinators [2]  Bees, Flies, Bats
Structure [4]  Herb
Usage [2]  A yellow dye is obtained from the flowers; A brown dye is obtained from the rhizomes; The growing plant repels gnats and flies, it has been burnt in houses in order to remove these insects;
Height [2]  3.936 feet (1.2 m)
Light Preference [3]  Mostly Sunny
Soil Acidity [3]  Neutral
Soil Fertility [3]  Intermediate
Soil Moisture [3]  Wet
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Protected Areas

Ecosystems

Predators

Providers

Pollinated by 
Brassicogethes aeneus (Common Pollen Beetle)[8]
Episyrphus balteatus (Marmelade Fly)[8]
Macropis europaea[8]
Neoascia podagrica[8]

Consumers

Parasitized by 
Septoria lysimachiae[7]

External References

USDA Plant Profile

NatureServe Explorer

Citations

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♦ 1Arnold SEJ, Faruq S, Savolainen V, McOwan PW, Chittka L, 2010 FReD: The Floral Reflectance Database — A Web Portal for Analyses of Flower Colour. PLoS ONE 5(12): e14287.
♦ 2Plants For A Future licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License
♦ 3ECOFACT 2a Technical Annex - Ellenberg’s indicator values for British Plants, M O Hill, J O Mountford, D B Roy & R G H Bunce (1999)
♦ 4Kattge, J. et al. (2011b) TRY - a global database of plant traits Global Change Biology 17:2905-2935
♦ 5Biological Records Centre Database of Insects and their Food Plants
♦ 6HOSTS - a Database of the World's Lepidopteran Hostplants Gaden S. Robinson, Phillip R. Ackery, Ian J. Kitching, George W. Beccaloni AND Luis M. Hernández
♦ 7Ecology of Commanster
♦ 8Jorrit H. Poelen, James D. Simons and Chris J. Mungall. (2014). Global Biotic Interactions: An open infrastructure to share and analyze species-interaction datasets. Ecological Informatics.
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Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0