Lysimachia barystachys Bunge

Manchurian yellow loosestrife (en)

Species

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Characteristics

Herbs perennial, 30--100 cm tall, with creeping rhizomes. Stems erect, simple or branched in upper part, with dense multicellular tangled hairs. Leaves alternate or subopposite, subsessile, oblong-lanceolate to oblanceolate or linear, 4--10 X 0.6--2.2 cm, abaxially more densely so, epunctate, adaxially pubescent, tapering at base, apex obtuse to acute. Racemes 4--6 cm, elongating to 30 cm in fruit, densely flowered; bracts linear-subulate, ciliate. Pedicel 4--6 mm, usually slightly shorter than bracts, pubescent. Flowers often secund. Calyx lobes oblong, 3--4 mm, margin membranous, apex rounded. Corolla white; tube ca. 2 mm; lobes oblong-spatulate, 5--8 X ca. 2 mm, often dark purple glandular striate, apex obtuse to slightly emarginate. Stamens included; filaments adnate to corolla tube, free parts ca. 3 mm, glandular puberulent; anthers elliptic, dorsifixed, ca. 1 mm. Ovary glabrous; style 3--3.5 mm. Capsule subglobose, 2.5--4 mm in diam. Fl. May-Aug. 2n = 24@.
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A herb. It keeps growing from year to year. It grows 30-100 cm tall. It has creeping rhizomes. The stems have tangled hairs. The leaves are alternate and 4-10 cm long by 1-2 cm wide.
Life form perennial
Growth form herb
Growth support -
Foliage retention deciduous
Sexuality hermaphrodite
Pollination entomogamy
Spread -
Mature width (meter) 0.1 - 0.5
Mature height (meter) 0.55 - 0.8
Root system rhizome
Rooting depth (meter) -
Root diameter (meter) -
Flower color
Blooming months
JanFebMar
AprMayJun
JulAugSep
OctNovDec
Fruit color -
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Nitrogen fixer -
Photosynthetic pathway -

Environment

It is a temperate plant. It grows in Inner Mongolia in China. It grows on grassy mountain slopes between 800-2,000 m above sea level in north China. In Sichuan and Yunnan.
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Sunny hills and low elevations in mountains, central Japan. Mountain meadows, grassy mountain slopes, among shrubs at elevations of 800-2000 metres.
Light 4-9
Soil humidity 4-6
Soil texture 1-6
Soil acidity 3-8
Soil nutriment -
Hardiness (USDA) 5-8

Usage

Uses medicinal
Edible leaves stems
Therapeutic use -
Human toxicity -
Animal toxicity -

Cultivation

Can be grown by divisions or seedlings.
Mode divisions seedlings
Germination duration (days) 30 - 90
Germination temperacture (C°) 15 - 20
Germination luminosity -
Germination treatment -
Minimum temperature (C°) -
Optimum temperature (C°) -
Size -
Vigor -
Productivity -

Images

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Distribution

Lysimachia barystachys world distribution map, present in China, Japan, Korea (Democratic People's Republic of), and United States of America

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:701051-1
WFO ID wfo-0001105475
COL ID 6QQMZ
BDTFX ID -
INPN ID -
Wikipedia (EN) Link
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Synonyms

Lysimachia piccolii Lysimachia quelpaertensis Bernardina pubescens Lysimachia barystachys