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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. |