Description

Key Information:

Soil: Hydric (Wet) – Mesic (Medium)
Sun: Full Sun – Part Sun
Height: 1-2 feet
Bloom Color: Yellow
Bloom Season: June – September

More Details:

Suggested Uses: Prairie Loosestrife does well in moist gardens, rain gardens and shoreline restorations. It has small, delicate, pixie-like flowers that remind us of fairy tales! Can be found near calcareous fens.

Native Range: Native to wetlands throughout the Midwest U.S.

Pollinators: Melittid Bees. Native Lysimachia species and Melittid bees have a fascinating story of coevolution. Read more about this relationship here (from Xerxes Society).

Flowers: The 1/2″ drooping flowers have 5 slightly pointed petals.

Leaves: The whorled leaves are stiff and narrow.

Other Names: Four-flowered Yellow Loosestrife

More information: USDA plant profile