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|accepted_name=Lysimachia tonsa
|accepted_authority=(Alph. Wood) Alph. Wood ex R. Knuth in H. G. A. Engler
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=in H. G. A. Engler, Pflanzenr.
|place=22[IV,237]: 277. 1905 ,
}}
|common_names=Appalachian or southern loosestrife
|basionyms={{Treatment/ID/Basionym
|name=Lysimachia ciliata var. tonsa
|authority=Alph. Wood
|rank=variety
|publication_title=Class-book Bot. ed. s.n.(b),
|publication_place=505. 1861
}}
|synonyms={{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Lysimachia tonsa var. simplex
|authority=(Kearney) R. Knuth
|rank=variety
}} {{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Steironema intermedium
|authority=(Alph. Wood) E. P. Bicknell
|rank=species
}} {{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Steironema tonsum
|authority=
|rank=species
}}
|hierarchy=Myrsinaceae;Lysimachia;Lysimachia tonsa
|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 tonsa]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 8
|mention_page=page 308, 309
|treatment_page=page 318
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Stems </b>erect, simple or branched distally, 3–7 dm, stipitate-glandular or pubescent; rhizomes slender to thickened (sometimes absent); bulblets absent. <b>Leaves</b> opposite; petiole 0.5–4.5 cm, ciliate proximally near node, cilia 0.2–0.7(–1.2) mm; blade lanceolate to ovate, 3–9 × (0.8–)1–4.5 cm, base truncate, rounded, or cuneate, decurrent, margins entire or slightly sinuate, plane, sometimes obscurely ciliolate (rarely stipitate-glandular), apex acute to acuminate, surfaces not punctate, glabrous; venation pinnate-arcuate. <b>Inflorescences</b> axillary in distal leaves, solitary flowers or verticils. <b>Pedicels</b> 0.8–4 cm, stipitate-glandular at least distally. <b>Flowers</b>: sepals 5, calyx not streaked, 2.5–7.5 mm, glandular proximally or glabrous, lobes ovate to lanceolate, margins somewhat thickened; petals 5, corolla yellow, often with reddish base, not streaked, rotate, 6–12 mm, lobes with margins usually entire or sometimes erose distally, apex apiculate, stipitate-glandular adaxially; filaments distinct or nearly so, shorter than corolla; staminodes 0.6–1 mm. <b>Capsules</b> 3.5–5.8 mm, not punctate, glabrous. <b>2n</b> = 34, 102.</span><!--

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|phenology=Flowering late summer.
|habitat=Moist hardwood forests, pine-oak woods, sandstone bluffs, rocky areas
|elevation=0-600 m
|distribution=Ala.;Ark.;Ga.;Ky.;N.C.;S.C.;Tenn.;Tex.;Va.;W.Va.
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|references=
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name=Lysimachia tonsa
|authority=(Alph. Wood) Alph. Wood ex R. Knuth in H. G. A. Engler
|rank=species
|parent rank=genus
|synonyms=Lysimachia tonsa var. simplex;Steironema intermedium;Steironema tonsum
|basionyms=Lysimachia ciliata var. tonsa
|family=Myrsinaceae
|phenology=Flowering late summer.
|habitat=Moist hardwood forests, pine-oak woods, sandstone bluffs, rocky areas
|elevation=0-600 m
|distribution=Ala.;Ark.;Ga.;Ky.;N.C.;S.C.;Tenn.;Tex.;Va.;W.Va.
|reference=None
|publication title=in H. G. A. Engler, Pflanzenr.
|publication year=
|special status=
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|genus=Lysimachia
|species=Lysimachia tonsa
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