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Lysimachia europaea
Also called Arctic Starflower, Northern Starflower, Starflower
Chickweed-wintergreen is a small, low perennial of cool boreal forests and tundra edges, growing about 10 cm tall with a single whorl of leaves and a solitary white star-shaped flower in midsummer. It needs cool, moist, shaded conditions and is best grown in a woodland or alpine-style bed.
Lysimachia europaea (formerly known as Trientalis europaea) is a flowering plant in the primrose family Primulaceae, called by the common name chickweed-wintergreen or arctic starflower. It is a small herbaceous perennial plant with one or more whorls of leaves on a single slender erect stem. It is about 10 cm, 3.9 in high. The broad lanceolate leaves are pale green but take on a copper hue in late summer. The solitary white flowers (1–2 cm, 0.39–0.79 in diameter, usually with 6–8 petals) are reminiscent of small wood anemones and appear in midsummer. The fruits are globular, dry capsules, but are seldom produced.
Lysimachia europaea occurs throughout boreal regions of Europe and Asia, but is absent from eastern North America, but can be found in the northwestern parts of the U.S. and parts of Canada. where it is largely replaced by Lysimachia borealis in corresponding habitats.
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Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Lysimachia europaea 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.
