Plants of South Eastern New South Wales
Lysimachia vulgaris var. davurica
Common name
Yellow loosestrife
Family
Primulaceae
Where found
Pasture, wetlands, and near streams. Wingecarribee Swamp, the Boro area near Braidwood, and the Bega River Valley.
Notes
Perennial herb to 2 m high, rhizomatous or stoloniferous. Dies back to the rootstock each autumn and resprouts next spring. Leaves in whorls of 3 or 4, or opposite each other, 3.5–9 cm long, 6–32 mm wide, becoming smaller towards the stem tip, green, paler beneath, covered with minute glandular hairs, dotted with orange to blackish glands. Flowers yellow, 9–15 mm in diameter, with 5 petals. Sepals with a line of orange to blackish glands on their outer surface near the margins. Flowers in many-flowered branched clusters.
Endangered NSW. Provisions of the NSW Biodiversity Conservation Act 2016 No 63 relating to the protection of protected plants generally also apply to plants that are a threatened species.
NSW Threatened Species profile: http://www.environment.nsw.gov.au/threatenedSpeciesApp/profile.aspx?id=10498 (accessed 7 January, 2021)
PlantNET description: https://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Lysimachia~vulgaris (accessed 7 January, 2021)
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