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 ILPIN INFORMATION ON    Lysimachia ciliata
 
 
 CLASS:    DICOTYLEDENAE
 ORDER:    PRIMULALES
 FAMILY:   PRIMULACEAE
 SCIENTIFIC NAME:  Lysimachia ciliata
 AUTHORITY:  L.
 
 COMMON NAMES:
    FRINGED LOOSESTRIFE
 
 SYNONOMY:   None
 
 PLANTS CODE: LYCI
 
 NATURAL COMMUNITIES:
     FOREST
       UPLAND FOREST
         MESIC
       FLOODPLAIN FOREST
         MESIC
       THICKETS
     PRAIRIE
       TYPICAL PRAIRIE
         WET
     WETLAND
       MARSH
       SWAMP
       SEEP & SPRING
         TYPICAL SEEP
       BORDER OF LAKE
 
 SAF FOREST COVER TYPE:  UNAVAILABLE
 
 NATURAL DIVISION:  UNAVAILABLE
 
 COUNTIES:
   ADAMS           BOND            BOONE           BUREAU          CALHOUN
   CARROLL         CASS            CHAMPAIGN       CHRISTIAN       CLARK
   CLINTON         COLES           COOK            CRAWFORD        CUMBERLAND
   DEKALB          DEWITT          DOUGLAS         DUPAGE          EDGAR
   EDWARDS         EFFINGHAM       FAYETTE         FORD            FRANKLIN
   FULTON          GALLATIN        GREENE          GRUNDY          HAMILTON
   HANCOCK         HARDIN          HENDERSON       HENRY           IROQUOIS
   JACKSON         JASPER          JEFFERSON       JERSEY          JO DAVIESS
   JOHNSON         KANE            KANKAKEE        KENDALL         KNOX
   LAKE            LASALLE         LAWRENCE        LEE             LIVINGSTON
   LOGAN           MCDONOUGH       MCHENRY         MCLEAN          MACON
   MACOUPIN        MARSHALL        MASON           MASSAC          MENARD
   MERCER          MORGAN          MOULTRIE        OGLE            PEORIA
   PERRY           PIATT           PIKE            POPE            PUTNAM
   RANDOLPH        RICHLAND        ROCK ISLAND     ST. CLAIR       SALINE
   SANGAMON        SCHUYLER        SCOTT           STARK           STEPHENSON
   TAZEWELL        UNION           VERMILION       WABASH          WARREN
   WASHINGTON      WAYNE           WHITE           WHITESIDE       WILL
   WILLIAMSON      WINNEBAGO       WOODFORD
 
 GROWTH FORM:  Dicot-herb
 
 TAXONOMIC CHARACTERISTICS:
    ROOTS:  Primary   Adventitious   (rhizomes)
    LEAF ARRANGEMENT:     Opposite
    LEAF TYPE:
    LEAF MARGIN:   Entire
    LEAF VENATION:  Pinnate
    LEAF SHAPE:     Lanceolate   Ovate
    INFLORESCENCE:   Solitary- few
    FLOWER STRUCTURE:   Complete   Regular
    FLOWER COLOR:   Yellow
    FLOWER PLACEMENT:  Hypogynous
    FRUIT:   Capsule
 
 DISTINGUISHING CHARACTERISTIC COMMENTS:
     Leaf petioles are winged; leaf margins ciliate.
 
 GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION:
     ORIGIN:   Native
 
 POPULATION DYNAMICS:
     STATE STATUS: Not listed
     FEDERAL STATUS: Not listed
     COMMONNESS:  Common
     ENDEMIC:   NOT-ENDEMIC
 
 BIOLOGIC:
     HABIT:   Forb
     LIFE CYCLE:   Perennial
     REPRODUCTION:   Sexual   Vegetative
     FLOWERING PERIOD:
         MONTH BEGINNING-      8         MONTH END-      9
     TROPHIC STATUS:  Autotrophic
     C02 FIXATION:  C3
     SEX:      Perfect
 
 ECODISTRIBUTION COMMENTS:
     Species is usually distributed in full sun.
 
 ENVIRONMENTAL RELATIONSHIPS:   No data entered
 
 FUNCTIONAL RELATIONSHIPS:    No data entered
 HUMAN RELATIONSHIP DATA:
     LANDSCAPING:  NO
 
 WILDLIFE AND LIVESTOCK INFORMATION:   No data entered
 
 REVEGETATION PLANTINGS:
     WEEDINESS:   Non-weedy
 
 
 
 REFERENCES:
Jones, G. N.  1963.  Flora of Illinois.  Third ed.  American Midland Naturalist
     Monograph 7.  University of Notre Dame, Indiana.  401 pp.
Steyermark, J. A.  1963.  Flora of Missouri.  Iowa State University Press, Ames.
     1725 pp.
Gleason, H. A., and A. Cronquist.  1963.  Manual of vascular plants of north-
     eastern United States and adjacent Canada.  Van Nostrand Reinhold Co.,
     New York.  810 pp.
Fernald, M. L.  1950.  Gray's manual of botany.  8th ed.  American Book Co.,
     New York.  1632 pp.
Swink, F., and G. S. Wilhelm.  1979.  Plants of the Chicago region.  Third ed.
     The Morton Arboretum, Lisle, Illinois.  922 pp.
Mohlenbrock, R. H.  1967-continuing.  The illustrated flora of Illinois.
     Southern Illinois University Press, Carbondale.
Downton, W. J. S.  1975.  The occurrence of C4 photosynthesis among plants.
     Photosynthetica 9(1): 96-105.
 
 END OF DATA FOR SPECIES  Lysimachia ciliata
 
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 ILPIN was developed by Louis Iverson*, with data compiled by David Ketzner and Jeanne Karnes
 Illinois Natural History Survey, 607 E. Peabody Dr., Champaign, IL 61820
     *currently employed by USDA Forest Service, 359 Main Rd., Delaware, OH 43015