Wild plants in and around Shimane 島根とその周辺の野生植物

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Lysimachia mauritiana / Hamabossu ハマボッス

Bloom time: May-June

   
Family:
 
Primulaceae /
Sakurasouka


 

Notes For Reference:- 

Species, Varieties, or Forms in the Genus Lysimachia:

Lysimachia acroadenia / Ginreika
Lysimachia clethroides / Okatoranoo
Lysimachia fortunei / Numatoranoo
Lysimachia japonica / Konasubi
Lysimachia mauritiana / Hamabossu
Lysimachia vulgaris var.davurica / Kusaredama
Lysimachia_x_pilophora / Inutoranoo
   

Lysimachia mauritiana / Hamabossu ハマボッス

 
Lysimachia mauritiana is a biennial herb that reaches heights of 10-40cm, occurring in sandy soils or on rocky seashores. Stems are cylindrical and ridged, often tinging red. Leaves are alternate, 2-5cm long and 1-2cm wide, in an obovate or oblanceolate shape, thick and glossy. Stem tips emerge as short racemes, with singly set white flowers set aside by bracts. Corollas are 1-1.2cm in diameter and cleft deeply into five. The fruit (capsule) is spherical, 4-6mm in diameter. Bloom time: May-June.
                     
               
                     

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