![]() ![]() The blooming period lasts about 1½ months with, usually, only a few flowers in bloom at the same time. Blooms are often reddish near the center of the flower, where the reproductive organs occur. Each flower is ½–1″ across it has a green hairless calyx with 5 lanceolate teeth and a corolla with 5 widely spreading petal-like lobes that taper to slender pointed tips. These pedicels are slender, light green, and hairless. Leaf stems (petioles) are up to 1½” long with conspicuous spreading hairs.Īlong the axils (point on the main stem where the buds or shoots develop) of the middle to upper leaves, individual flowers occur on pedicels (a stalk bearing a single flower within a cluster) and each usually droops or appears to nod downward. The leaves are up to 6″ long and 2½” across each is medium green in color, lanceolate to ovate in shape with hairless surfaces and smooth margins. ![]() Pairs of opposite leaves occur at intervals along the length of each stem. This herbaceous perennial wildflower is 1-4′ tall, unbranched or sparingly branched, and more or less erect. In general then, both the common and the generic name refers to a supposed power to soothe animals or “loose” them of their “strife”. He grabbed a loosestrife plant, waved it in front of the bull and it calmed the bull. The legend is that Lysimachus, king of Sicily, was walking through a field when a bull chased him. The genus name is from the Greek for either King Lysimachus or from lysis meaning “a release from” and mache is for “strife”. Some people use a smudge fire of this plant as an effective repellant for flies during the summer. The live plant is said to repel gnats and flies.
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