Lysimachia terrestris(L.) Britton, Sterns & Poggenb.

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WFO wfo-0000442404 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC0 / CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h

Lysimachia terrestris, photographed by Lynn Harper
fig. a Lynn Harper, CC0 1.0 / 2021-11-17 / obs. 169257810
Lysimachia terrestris, photographed by Steven Lamonde
fig. b Steven Lamonde, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 156182906
Lysimachia terrestris, photographed by Doug Suitor
fig. c Doug Suitor, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 156365483
Lysimachia terrestris, photographed by Laura J. Costello
fig. d Laura J. Costello, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 186758365
Lysimachia terrestris, photographed by Sean Grasing
fig. e Sean Grasing, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 154571751
Lysimachia terrestris, photographed by Henry "Nick" Robertson
fig. f Henry "Nick" Robertson, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 151473178
Lysimachia terrestris, photographed by Henry "Nick" Robertson
fig. g Henry "Nick" Robertson, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 151479858
Lysimachia terrestris, photographed by Renee MacQuarrie
fig. h Renee MacQuarrie, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 148408934

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Flowering n = 1,759 observations

Peak flowering in Jul, from 1,759 community-annotated observations worldwide. This is a global aggregate, not a forecast for your garden: the same species flowers on different dates in different hemispheres, and citizen-science records cluster near cities, at weekends, and in spring. Where a species has fewer than 30 annotated records we do not draw this chart at all.

Also published as 16 synonyms

A synonym is not an error. It is a record of botanists disagreeing, in print, about where this plant belongs. Each of these was somebody’s considered answer.

  • Lysimachia angustifolia Michx.
  • Lysimachia bulbifera Curtis
  • Lysimachia michauxii F.Dietr.
  • Lysimachia racemosa Lam.
  • Lysimachia stricta Aiton
  • Lysimachia stricta f. brevifolia Peck
  • Lysimachia stricta f. bulbifera Peck
  • Lysimachia stricta f. intermedia Peck
  • Lysimachia stricta f. typica Peck
  • Lysimachia stricta var. ovata E.L.Rand & Redfield
  • Lysimachia stricta var. typica R.Knuth
  • Lysimachia terrestris f. florifera B.Boivin
  • Lysimachia terrestris f. terrestris
  • Lysimachia terrestris var. ovata Fernald
  • Lysimachia terrestris var. terrestris
  • Viscum terrestre L.

Sourcesevery claim on this page

  1. World Flora Online Plant List. accepted name, authority, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
  2. iNaturalist. photographs and flowering annotations, CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA only. per photograph. Retrieved 2026-06-27.

We publish what we can source and we say so when we cannot. This page has no care advice, no toxicity claim and no native range, because we do not yet have those from a source we can cite.