Lysimachia quadriflora

Sims

Bot. Mag. 18: plate 660. 1803 ,.

Common names: Linear-leaf or four-flower loosestrife
IllustratedEndemic
Synonyms: Lysimachia longifolia Pursh Lysimachia revoluta Nuttall Nummularia longifolia (Pursh) Kuntze Steironema longifolium (Pursh) Rafinesque Steironema quadriflorum (Sims) Hitchcock
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Stems erect, simple or branched, (1.2–) 2–10 dm, glabrous; rhizomes slender; bulblets absent. Leaves opposite; petiole 0.1–0.5 (–0.9) cm, ciliate at very base near nodes, cilia 0.1–0.8 mm; blade linear to narrowly lanceolate, 3.4–9 × 0.2–0.6 cm, base cuneate, decurrent, margins entire, revolute, eciliolate, apex acute to obtuse, surfaces not punctate, glabrous; venation single-veined or obscurely pinnate. Inflorescences axillary in distal leaves, solitary flowers (or verticils). Pedicels 0.5–2.8 cm, glabrous. Flowers: sepals 5, calyx not streaked, 3.5–6 mm, glabrous, lobes lanceolate, margins thickened; petals 5, corolla yellow, sparsely streaked with brownish-violet (sometimes obscure) resin canals, rotate, 7–13 mm, lobes with margins entire (sometimes slightly erose distally), glabrous, apex apiculate, stipitate-glandular adaxially; filaments weakly connate at very base, shorter than corolla; staminodes 0.6–0.9 mm. Capsules 3.5–5 mm, not punctate, glabrous (rarely sparsely stipitate-glandular). 2n = 34.


Phenology: Flowering summer.
Habitat: Moist prairies, meadows, roadsides, springs, swamps, bogs, other wetlands
Elevation: 0-600 m

Distribution

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Man., Ont., Ala., Ark., D.C., Ga., Ill., Ind., Iowa, Ky., Md., Mich., Minn., Mo., N.Y., N.Dak., Ohio, Okla., Pa., S.Dak., Tenn., Va., W.Va., Wis.

Discussion

Lysimachia quadriflora has been reported as an adventive from Massachusetts (B. A. Sorrie and P. Somers 1999).

Selected References

None.

Lower Taxa

None.

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... more about "Lysimachia quadriflora"
stipitate-glandular +
acute +  and obtuse +
Anita F. Cholewa +
decurrent +  and cuneate +
3.4 cm34 mm <br />0.034 m <br /> (9 cm90 mm <br />0.09 m <br />) +
sculpted +  and entire +
linear;narrowly lanceolate +
0.2 cm2 mm <br />0.002 m <br /> (0.6 cm6 mm <br />0.006 m <br />) +
indistinguishable +
not streaked +
0.35 cm3.5 mm <br />0.0035 m <br /> (0.6 cm6 mm <br />0.006 m <br />) +
0.35 cm3.5 mm <br />0.0035 m <br /> (0.5 cm5 mm <br />0.005 m <br />) +
0.01 cm0.1 mm <br />1.0e-4 m <br /> (0.08 cm0.8 mm <br />8.0e-4 m <br />) +
Linear-leaf or four-flower loosestrife +
streaked;yellow +
0.7 cm7 mm <br />0.007 m <br /> (1.3 cm13 mm <br />0.013 m <br />) +
Man. +, Ont. +, Ala. +, Ark. +, D.C. +, Ga. +, Ill. +, Ind. +, Iowa +, Ky. +, Md. +, Mich. +, Minn. +, Mo. +, N.Y. +, N.Dak. +, Ohio +, Okla. +, Pa. +, S.Dak. +, Tenn. +, Va. +, W.Va. +  and Wis. +
0-600 m +
curved +  and straight +
globose +
0.13 cm1.3 mm <br />0.0013 m <br /> (0.7 cm7 mm <br />0.007 m <br />) +
Moist prairies, meadows, roadsides, springs, swamps, bogs, other wetlands +
nectariferous +
monomorphic +
lanceolate +
stipitate-glandular +, ciliolate +, pubescent +  and glabrous +
serrulate usually plane +  and revolute +
tenuinucellate +  and bitegmic +
anatropous;campylotropous +
0.5 cm5 mm <br />0.005 m <br /> (2.8 cm28 mm <br />0.028 m <br />) +
connate;proximally nearly distinct +
0.5 cm5 mm <br />0.005 m <br /> (0.9 cm9 mm <br />0.009 m <br />) +
0.1 cm1 mm <br />0.001 m <br /> (0.5 cm5 mm <br />0.005 m <br />) +
Flowering summer. +
3-5-carpellate +
brownish-violet +
winged +  and margined +
reddish-brown +, brown +, black +  and shiny +
smooth;roughened +
ovoid +  and obconic or trigonous or more or less hemispheric +
whitish +  and pinkish +
Illustrated +  and Endemic +
epipetalous +  and antipetalous +
0.06 cm0.6 mm <br />6.0e-4 m <br /> (0.09 cm0.9 mm <br />9.0e-4 m <br />) +
branched +  and simple +
usually capitate;truncate +
rudimentary +
pinnate +  and single-veined +
Lysimachia longifolia +, Lysimachia revoluta +, Nummularia longifolia +, Steironema longifolium +  and Steironema quadriflorum +
Lysimachia quadriflora +
Lysimachia +
species +
annual +  and perennial +
stipitate-glandular +  and glabrous +