Lysimachia punctata, SE: Praktlysing, DE: Punktierter Gilbweiderich,
NL: Puntwederik, UK: Garden Loosestrife, Yellow Loosestrife, Dotted Loosestrife

Scientific name:  Lysimachia punctata L.
Swedish name:  Praktlysing
German name:  Punktierter Gilbweiderich
Nederlandse naam:  Puntwederik
English name:  Garden Loosestrife, Yellow Loosestrife, Dotted Loosestrife
Family:  Primulaceae, Primrose Family, Viveväxter

Sweden Flowers,Lysimachia punctata, Praktlysing, Punktierter Gilbweiderich, Puntwederik, Garden Loosestrife, Yellow Loosestrife, Dotted Loosestrife

Life form:  Perennial
Stems:  Height 45-60 cm, stiff upright stems
Leaves:  Simple, oblong ovate, black glandular dots
Flowers:  Bright yellow bowl-shaped flowers in terminal racemes or panicles, or solitary in leaf axils
Flowering Period:  June-July
Fruits:  Capsule
Habitat:  Anthropogenic (man-made or disturbed habitats), meadows and fields
Distribution:  Hardy in the far north of Sweden; originally cultivated species, which occurs quite commonly run wild

Lysimachia punctata, Praktlysing, Punktierter Gilbweiderich, Puntwederik, Garden Loosestrife, Yellow Loosestrife, Dotted Loosestrife


Derivation of the botanical name:
Lysimachia, named for Lysimachus (661-281 BCE.), Macedonian King of Thrace.
punctata, dotted.
Loosestrife, Greek lysimacheios loosestrife (as if from lysis act of loosing + machesthai to fight).
  • The standard author abbreviation L. is used to indicate Carl Linnaeus (1707 – 1778), a Swedish botanist, physician, and zoologist, the father of modern taxonomy.