Winged loosestrife

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Winged loosestrife

Winged loosestrife habit

Winged loosestrife flowers

Winged loosestrife

Winged loosestrife inflorescence

Winged loosestrife

Winged loosestrife flowers and leaves

Winged loosestrife leaves

Winged loosestrife habit

Morphology

Stem

Plants glabrous. Stems erect, branched.

Leaves

Alternate or proximal opposite to subopposite; blade gray-green abaxially, dark green adaxially, not glaucous, ovate to lanceolate or linear-lanceolate, .6 to 1.6 inches long, .28 to .6 inch wide, not fleshy, margins entire, base clasping or auricled, rounded to subcordate.

Inflorescence

Axillary, 1-2-flowered. Pedicels 0 to .12 inch.

Flower

Dimorphic, radially symmetric; hypanthium narrowly obconic, .16 to .28 inch; calyx lobes 6, triangular, alternating with 6 attenuate appendages about 2 times as long as calyx lobes; petals 6, purple or purplish pink, obovate, .12 to .28 inch, appearing crumpled; stamens 6; pistil 1; style 1; stigma 1.

Fruit

Capsules membranous, cylindric, outer wall smooth. Seeds numerous, reddish brown, .02 to .03 inch.

Ecology

Habitat

Marshes, muddy to sandy shores of ponds and reservoirs, wet depressions, ditches

Distribution

Occurs throughout Kansas

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