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Lysimachia (probably after King Lysimachus). Primulaceae. Loosestrife. Erect or creeping leafy herbs grown in damp wild gardens and borders.
Leaves opposite or whorled, entire, usually black punctate: fls. spicate, racemose or solitary, with a rotate or campanulate, 5-parted corolla with an equal number of slightly monadelphous stamens opposite the lobes: caps. 1-loculed, with many seeds on a central placenta. —Over 100 species found in temperate and subtropical regions of all parts of the world. Only a few in cult., and these all perennials. They differ from related genera in the absence of staminodia between the stamens, which are usually slightly united. Revision, Knuth in Das Pflanzenreich, hft. 22, p. 256 (1905).
The loosestrifes are of easy culture, thriving best in moist situations. Propagation is by division in late autumn or early spring.
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