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Lysimachia punctata
Lysimachia punctata
Dotted Loosestrife
Photographer: Dr. Amadej Trnkoczy

ID: 0000 0000 0723 0592 (2023-07-15)

Copyright © 2023 Dr. Amadej Trnkoczy

 
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  • date of photo  Jul 7, 2023
  • latitude 46.35973   longitude 13.70480     View on Google Maps.
  • location   Lower Trenta valley, between villages Soča and Trenta, right bank of river Soča, near the abandoned farm house Skokar, Trenta 2, East Julian Alps (Posočje, Slovenia)
  • family Primulaceae
  • notes   Slo.: pikasta pijavčica - Habitat: unmaintained grassland; flat terrain, calcareous, colluvial ground; partly sunny place; average precipitations ~ 3.000 mm/year, average temperature 7-9 deg C, elevation 555 m (1.820 feet), Alpine phytogeographical region. - Substratum: soil. - Comments (pertain to pictures in Flicker album Lysimachia punctata): Lysimachia punctata is a tall, showy plant up to 1 m height, in some cases even more. In many of the European countries as well as in America it is an alien plant, native to south Europe, Balkan peninsula and Turkey. Nowadays it is naturalized in most European countries and USA. It was introduced only in recent history therefor it is called a neophyte. Because of its beauty it is in a large-scale cultivation all over the world and most frequently seen in gardens. But, quite often one can find plants, which are either wild or they escaped from gardens. - There exists a very similar species – yellow loosestrife (Lysimachia vulgaris). From far it is difficult to distinguish both species. One has to look closer to their petals. If they have glandulous hairy edges, then it is Lysimachia punctata, otherwise it is Lysimachia vulgaris. - Following Ref. 4 and 5, this, probably sub-spontaneous find, seems to be the first record of this species in the Upper Soča valley upstream of Bovec and in MTB square 9648/1. - Ref.: (1) A. Martinči et all., Mala Flora Slovenije (Flora of Slovenia - Key) (in Slovenian), Tehnična Založba Slovenije (2007), p 475. (2) M.A. Fischer, W. Adler, K. Oswald, Exkursionsflora für Österreich, Liechtenstein und Südtirol, LO Landesmuseen, Linz, Austria (2005), p 668. (3) D. Aeschimann, K. Lauber, D.M. Moser, J.P. Theurillat, Flora Alpina, Vol. 1., Haupt (2004), p 665. (4) N. Jogan, ed., Gradivo za Atlas Flore Slovenije (Materials for the Atlas of Flora of Slovenia) (in Slovene); Center za Kartografijo Favne in Flore. Miklavž na Dravskem polju (2001), p 236. (5) Seliškar, T., Vreš, B., Seliškar, A. (2003). FloVegSi 2.0. Računalniški program za urejanje in analizo bioloških podatkov (FloVegSi Data base). The Jovan Hadži Institute of Biology ZRC SAZU, Ljubljana.
  • camera   Sony ILCE6000 / Carl Zeiss Vario-Tessar E 16-70 mm/f4
  • contributor's ID #  Bot_1537/2023_DSC3658
  • photo category: Plant - annual/perennial

  • MORE INFORMATION ABOUT THIS PLANT
  • common names   Dotted Loosestrife, Circle Flower, Spotted Loosestrife (photographer)
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