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Barb Rosen on Jun 22, 2013Your pretty yellow plant is the perennial Lysimachia Punctata, Cindy. It is commonly known as yellow loosestrife. Here is a little about it http://www.robsplants.com/plants/LysimPunctHelpful Reply
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Cindy Lundquist-Heldmann on Jun 22, 2013Thank you so much! I am so happy to finally know what it is!Helpful Reply
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Barb Rosen on Jun 22, 2013My pleasure to help you. Happy Gardening!Helpful Reply
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Mary B on Jun 23, 2013I have this plant too....it is a plant that I got from my mother in law many years ago and just keep moving from house to house....I always laugh because she called it a CORNFlower....probably because it kind of looks like an ear of corn....but obviously it is not a cornflower...it IS Loosestrife, but a pretty one! Have a great day!Helpful Reply
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Douglas Hunt on Jun 23, 2013A lovely plant, and considerably less thuggish than its cousins.Helpful Reply
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Elaine Simmons on Jun 23, 2013Ironic that you should ask this........I have one too and didn't know what it was. Douglas, what does thuggish mean.........was that a typo.......should it be sluggish?Helpful Reply
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360 Sod (Donna Dixson) on Jun 23, 2013I am thinking @Douglas Hunt meant his remark to mean that it can be aggressive and take over a small country given time.Helpful Reply
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Elaine Simmons on Jun 23, 2013Donna, then so Iowa would be doomed? :)Helpful Reply
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Eulalia on Jun 23, 2013How pretty!Helpful Reply
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Douglas Hunt on Jun 23, 2013Donna is exactly right. Gooseneck loosestrife and purple loosestrife are notorious garden bullies, but the yellow version is pretty mild-mannered.Helpful Reply
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Brenda De Lair on Jun 23, 2013In Canada we call it yellow loosetrife. It looks lovely at first but after the flower fades, the leaves start to look ratty so I have to cut it back. I have a gooseneck loosestrife but it is white and short, and the flower heats form the shape of a gooseneck. I think pretty well all loosestrife plants are quite invasive.Helpful Reply
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April E on Jun 26, 2013actually loostrife is only "thuggish" under certain conditions and only certain species of it are ever "thuggish" and in the north most of these conditions cannot be met so iowa would be safe lolHelpful Reply
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