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Lysimachia ephemerum |
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| Common name |
silver loosestrife; willow-leaved loosestrife |
| Family |
myrsinaceae |
| Life cycle |
perennial (Z5-9) |
| Flowers |
white (summer) |
From seed  |
cold conditioning may be necessary for germination
detailed seed-starting info below
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I've grown this from seed several times, but failed to get to flowering plants in the first attempts. Finally, some seedlings survived both summer and winter, and I have one or two flowering plants this year. I like them OK - the long willowy leaves, which are paired along the stem, alternate directions for a cell tower-like effect; spikes of silvery white flowers show their stuff in July.
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This plant used to grow in our garden, but it slipped away... About my plant portraits
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Visitors to this page have left the following comments| Guigui | Mar 08, 2011 | Your picture looks like Lysimachia yunnanensis
Sure looks like you're right. So I've moved the photographs to the proper page. Thanks! |
| Jeanette Broekhuis | Aug 08, 2014 | I bought a plant on a recent trip to England and am hoping to propagate a clump of this plant -- it looked lovely in the gardens in Kent. |
- Seed from '05 trade. Baggy 65F (3w) - 35F (6w) - 70F (27%G, 7-25d)
- Same seed as above. Baggy 70F (3w) -35F (6w) - 70F (33%G, 10-16d). Low survival rate of seedlings
- Seed from '09 trade. Baggy 70F (2w) - 35F (6w) - 70F (91%G, 7-14d)
- Seed from '09 trade. Baggy 70F (2w) - 35F (6w) - 70F (88%G, 3-12d)
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