Lysimachia dubia Solander

Usually found along field borders or along roadside ditches, by water places etc. up to 2000 m.

A glabrous erect annual or biennial, up to 80 cm tall, upper half branched; stem fistular, ribbed; branches ascending. Young shoots glandulose. Leaves alternate, opposite to subopposite, under surface faintly glandular-punctate, 30-80 (-135) x 10-30 mm, elliptic-lanceolate or elliptic-ovate, acute or obtusish, glabrous, entire; uppermost leaves linear-lanceolate, 40-60 x 3.5-7.5 mm. Spikes terminal, erect, dense flowered above, lax below, (9-) 11-20 cm long. Flowers pink. Bracts 3-4 mm long, linear-lanceolate, up to 5 mm long in fruit, lower most sometimes leafy and large. Pedicel 1.5-3 mm, up to 4 mm long in fruit. Calyx campanulate, c. 4.5 mm long, 2/3 rd cleft, persistent; lobes lanceolate-obtuse or acutish, glandular streaked, the streaks reddish-brown; inner surface minutely glandulose, margin similar and membranous. Corolla 5-6 mm long, about twice the calyx length, tube broad and short (c. 2 mm long), lobes ligulate-oblong, glandulose. Ovary globose-ovoid, c. 1.6 mm broad, glabrous; style equalling the corolla, persistent, stigma subcapitate. Capsule 3-3.5 mm broad, globose, dehiscence at length irregular. Seeds c. 1 mm long, trigonal, dull black to brown, reticulate-vesiculose.

Distribution: The Balkan peninsula, Caucasia, W. Syria, Turkey, N. Iraq, Iran, Soviet C. Asia, Afghanistan and Kurram.

Fl.Per.: June-July.