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Lysimachia clethroides Duby

Common Name: GOOSENECK LOOSESTRIFE
Coefficient of Conservatism: *
Coefficient of Wetness: 5
Wetness Index: UPL
Physiognomy: Ad P-Forb

A native of eastern Asia, occasionally escaped from cultivation. First collected in 1986 by R. W. Smith in Lenawee Co. as spreading to a roadside bank from a garden in Adrian.

This is an unusual, attractive, and agressivly rhizomatous plant, but so far spread by seed has not been repoerted. 

B. S. Walters

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Counties
Lenawee

Citation:
MICHIGAN FLORA ONLINE. A. A. Reznicek, E. G. Voss, & B. S. Walters. February 2011. University of Michigan. Web. March, 28, 2025
https://lsa-miflora-p.lsait.lsa.umich.edu/#/record/1709