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Can anyone help me identify this?
12 answers
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Your 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/LysimPunct
Barb Rosen
on Jun 22, 2013
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Thank you so much! I am so happy to finally know what it is!
Cindy Lundquist-Heldmann
on Jun 22, 2013
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My pleasure to help you. Happy Gardening!
Barb Rosen
on Jun 22, 2013
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I 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!
Mary B
on Jun 23, 2013
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A lovely plant, and considerably less thuggish than its cousins.
Douglas Hunt
on Jun 23, 2013
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Ironic 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?
Elaine Simmons
on Jun 23, 2013
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I am thinking @Douglas Hunt meant his remark to mean that it can be aggressive and take over a small country given time.
360 Sod (Donna Dixson)
on Jun 23, 2013
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Donna, then so Iowa would be doomed? :)
Elaine Simmons
on Jun 23, 2013
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How pretty!
Eulalia
on Jun 23, 2013
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Donna is exactly right. Gooseneck loosestrife and purple loosestrife are notorious garden bullies, but the yellow version is pretty mild-mannered.
Douglas Hunt
on Jun 23, 2013
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In 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.
Brenda De Lair
on Jun 23, 2013
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actually 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 lol
April E
on Jun 26, 2013
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