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Ludwigia alternifolia
Also called Rattlebox, Alternate Leaved Seedbox, Bushy Seedbox
Seedbox (Ludwigia alternifolia) is a native North American perennial of wet places, grown in damp garden beds or pond margins for its yellow flowers and cube-shaped seed pods. Keep its roots consistently moist and give it full to part sun.
Ludwigia alternifolia, commonly known as seedbox, bushy seedbox, rattlebox, and square-pod water-primrose, is a herbaceous perennial plant of the family Onagraceae (evening primrose family). It is native to central and eastern North America, growing in marshes, wet meadows, and swamps. It has yellow, four-petaled flowers and brown seed pods that are shaped like a cube.
It is native to southern Quebec and Ontario to Kansas and south to Texas and Florida. It grows in habitats that have full to partial sun and wet to moist soil, such as marshes, wet meadows, and swamps.
Water Primrose · Winged primrose-willow · Ludwigia anastomosans · Wingleaf primrose-willow · Cylindricfruit primrose-willow · Large-flower primrose-willow · Floating Ludwigia · Water Primrose · Spindleroot · Seedbox · Ludwigia inclinata · Mexican primrose-willow
Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Ludwigia alternifolia by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts and the care summary drawn from them are shared under the same licence.
The care summary was written by AI (Claude, Anthropic) from the sources on this page, with general growing knowledge where they are silent. Check before relying on it.
Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.
