View source for Lysimachia quadrifolia

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|accepted_name=Lysimachia quadrifolia
|accepted_authority=Linnaeus
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Sp. Pl.
|place=1: 147. 1753 ,
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|common_names=Whorled loosestrife;cross-wort;lysimaque à quatre feuilles
|basionyms=
|synonyms={{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Lysimachia hirsuta
|authority=Michaux
}} {{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Lysimachia quadrifolia var. variegata
|authority=Peck
}}
|hierarchy=Myrsinaceae;Lysimachia;Lysimachia quadrifolia
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Myrsinaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Lysimachia]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>species</small>[[Lysimachia quadrifolia]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 8
|mention_page=page 308, 310, 314, 315
|treatment_page=page 316
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Stems </b>erect, usually simple, 3–10 dm, usually sparsely pubescent, at least at nodes (or glabrous); rhizomes slender to somewhat thickened; bulblets absent. <b>Leaves</b> whorled; petiole absent or 0.1–0.3 cm, eciliate; blade elliptic to lanceolate or ovate, 3–12 × 0.8–3.5(–4.5) cm, base cuneate or rounded, slightly decurrent, margins entire, plane, glabrous or sometimes sparsely pubescent, apex acuminate or acute (rarely obtuse), surfaces densely to sparsely punctate, pubescent at least along abaxial veins and margins; venation pinnate-arcuate. <b>Inflorescences</b> axillary in leaves (distalmost axils sometimes without flowers), solitary flowers. <b>Pedicels</b> 1.5–3 cm, sparsely pubescent. <b>Flowers</b>: sepals 5, calyx streaked with dark resin canals, 3–6 mm, slightly stipitate-glandular, lobes lanceolate, margins thin; petals 5, corolla yellow with reddish base and, sometimes, margins, streaked with black or maroon resin canals, rotate, 5–8 mm, lobes with margins entire, apex acute to rounded, stipitate-glandular adaxially; filaments connate ca. 1.7 mm, shorter than corolla; staminodes absent. <b>Capsules</b> 3–3.5 mm, sometimes dark-punctate, glabrous. <b>2n</b> = 84.</span><!--

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|phenology=Flowering summer.
|habitat=Dry to mesic hardwood forests, lowlands, fens, moist clearings, roadsides, and fields, rocky thickets and slopes, seashores
|elevation=0-1000 m
|distribution=N.B.;Ont.;Que.;Ala.;Conn.;Del.;D.C.;Ga.;Ill.;Ind.;Ky.;Maine;Md.;Mass.;Mich.;Minn.;N.H.;N.J.;N.Y.;N.C.;Ohio;Okla.;Pa.;R.I.;S.C.;Tenn.;Vt.;Va.;W.Va.;Wis.
|discussion=<p>A hybrid (known only from one population in Washington County, North Carolina) of <i>Lysimachia quadrifolia</i> with <i>L. loomisii</i> has been called L. ×radfordii H. E. Ahles.</p>
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-->{{#Taxon:
name=Lysimachia quadrifolia
|author=
|authority=Linnaeus
|rank=species
|parent rank=genus
|synonyms=Lysimachia hirsuta;Lysimachia quadrifolia var. variegata
|basionyms=
|family=Myrsinaceae
|phenology=Flowering summer.
|habitat=Dry to mesic hardwood forests, lowlands, fens, moist clearings, roadsides, and fields, rocky thickets and slopes, seashores
|elevation=0-1000 m
|distribution=N.B.;Ont.;Que.;Ala.;Conn.;Del.;D.C.;Ga.;Ill.;Ind.;Ky.;Maine;Md.;Mass.;Mich.;Minn.;N.H.;N.J.;N.Y.;N.C.;Ohio;Okla.;Pa.;R.I.;S.C.;Tenn.;Vt.;Va.;W.Va.;Wis.
|reference=None
|publication title=Sp. Pl.
|publication year=
|special status=
|source xml=https://jpend@bitbucket.org/aafc-mbb/fna-data-curation.git/src/8f726806613d60c220dc4493de13607dd3150896/coarse_grained_fna_xml/V8/V8_631.xml
|genus=Lysimachia
|species=Lysimachia quadrifolia
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