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Fishy65Fishy65 Posts: 2,276

Any idea what this is? 

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  • Fishy65Fishy65 Posts: 2,276

    Thank you for the ID pansyface...its growing in my stepson's garden. I am growing purple loosestrife but it doesn't look like a relation.

  • ObelixxObelixx Posts: 30,064

    The botanical family is lysimachia and it come sin many forms.  Yours is lysimachia vulgaris and it can be invasive.

    I have purple loosestrife growing by my natural pond and lysimachia clethroides alba which is a much more attractive form spreading happily, but controllably, in a large sunny bed and I have the seeds to grow some lysimachia Beaujolais after seeing it at Chelsea a couple of years ago.  

    Lysimachia Firecracker has purple foliage and yellow flowers and is good for moist soils.  Loads more forms out there including some low growing ground cover.

    Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
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