Yellow Loosestrife (Lysimachia vulgaris) (27/07/2022) Arundel Wetlands & Wildfowl Trust, Arundel, W Sussex. Dotted Loosestrife instead has pointed petals.
Yellow Loosestrife (Lysimachia vulgaris) (27/07/2022) Arundel Wetlands & Wildfowl Trust, Arundel, W Sussex. Some flowers and some fruits. The sepals are diagnostic - the orange edges to them. Dotted Loosestrife has uniformly green sepals. Also Dotted Loosestrife has flowers atop short stalks.
Yellow Loosestrife (Lysimachia vulgaris) (27/07/2022) Arundel Wetlands & Wildfowl Trust, Arundel, W Sussex. Close-up of orange-edged sepals - Dotted Loosestrife lacks these and has uniformly green sepals. Some of these are in fact fruits still with style / stigma sticking out!
Yellow Loosestrife (Lysimachia vulgaris) (27/07/2022) Arundel Wetlands & Wildfowl Trust, Arundel, W Sussex. It is a marginal plant, here in wet soils by the various ponds making up the wetlands.
Yellow Loosestrife (Lysimachia vulgaris) (27/07/2022) Arundel Wetlands & Wildfowl Trust, Arundel, W Sussex. Leaves are in whorls of three up the main stem.
Yellow Loosestrife (Lysimachia vulgaris) (27/07/2022) Arundel Wetlands & Wildfowl Trust, Arundel, W Sussex.
Yellow Loosestrife (Lysimachia vulgaris) (27/07/2022) Arundel Wetlands & Wildfowl Trust, Arundel, W Sussex. The fruits.
