''Lysimachia congestiflora'', known as golden globes loosestrife or creeping Jenny, is a species of

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in the primrose family ''

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''. It is native to

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Description

It is an aboveground perennial and a

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-former plant that reaches heights of 10 to 20 cm. The stem is creeping to ascending and forms knots at the roots. The leaves are opposite. There are two pairs of leaves just below the

inflorescence In botany, an inflorescence is a group or cluster of flowers arranged on a plant's Plant stem, stem that is composed of a main branch or a system of branches. An inflorescence is categorized on the basis of the arrangement of flowers on a mai ...

. The leaf blade measures (0.7) 1.4 to 3 (4.5) × (0.6) 1.3 to 2.2 (3) centimetres and is

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to broadly ovate or almost circular. It has pressed, articulated hair, and mainly has reddish or black glandular points on the edge.

Inflorescences

The flowers are heaped upside down at the end of the stem in two to four. The flowers are colored yellow with a red eye. The

ovary The ovary () is a gonad in the female reproductive system that produces ova; when released, an ovum travels through the fallopian tube/ oviduct into the uterus. There is an ovary on the left and the right side of the body. The ovaries are end ...

is hairy. The flowering period extends from spring to summer.

Distribution

It occurs in

China China, officially the People's Republic of China (PRC), is a country in East Asia. With population of China, a population exceeding 1.4 billion, it is the list of countries by population (United Nations), second-most populous country after ...

Bhutan Bhutan, officially the Kingdom of Bhutan, is a landlocked country in South Asia, in the Eastern Himalayas between China to the north and northwest and India to the south and southeast. With a population of over 727,145 and a territory of , ...

northeast India Northeast India, officially the North Eastern Region (NER), is the easternmost region of India representing both a geographic and political Administrative divisions of India, administrative division of the country. It comprises eight States and ...

Nepal Nepal, officially the Federal Democratic Republic of Nepal, is a landlocked country in South Asia. It is mainly situated in the Himalayas, but also includes parts of the Indo-Gangetic Plain. It borders the Tibet Autonomous Region of China Ch ...

Sikkim Sikkim ( ; ) is a States and union territories of India, state in northeastern India. It borders the Tibet Autonomous Region of China in the north and northeast, Bhutan in the east, Koshi Province of Nepal in the west, and West Bengal in the ...

Myanmar Myanmar, officially the Republic of the Union of Myanmar; and also referred to as Burma (the official English name until 1989), is a country in northwest Southeast Asia. It is the largest country by area in Mainland Southeast Asia and has ...

and

Thailand Thailand, officially the Kingdom of Thailand and historically known as Siam (the official name until 1939), is a country in Southeast Asia on the Mainland Southeast Asia, Indochinese Peninsula. With a population of almost 66 million, it spa ...

moist forest Tropical and subtropical moist broadleaf forests (TSMF), also known as tropical moist forest, is a subtropical and tropical forest habitat type defined by the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF). Description TSMF is generally found in large ...

edges, bushes and the edges of

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s at altitudes of 200 to 2100 meters.

Cultivation

It is grown as an

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for its bright yellow flowers and easy maintenance, in moist well-drained soils, thriving in full sun to partial shade. It can be grown from stem cuttings.

Cultivar A cultivar is a kind of Horticulture, cultivated plant that people have selected for desired phenotypic trait, traits and which retains those traits when Plant propagation, propagated. Methods used to propagate cultivars include division, root a ...

s include: *‘Aurea’ *'Outback Sunset' (variegated leaves) *‘Persian Chocolate’ (purplish foliage) *'Waikiki Sunset' (variegated leaves) *‘Zimai’ (purple-veined leaves)

Chemistry

''Lysimachia congestiflora'' yields the O-methylated flavonol

syringetin Syringetin is an ''O''-methylated flavonol, a type of flavonoid. It is found in red grape (absent in white grape), in '' Lysimachia congestiflora'' and in '' Vaccinium uliginosum'' (bog bilberries). It is one of the phenolic compounds present in ...

.Flavonol glycosides from Lysimachia congestiflora. Jian Guo, Dong-Lei Yu, Lizhen Xu, Min Zhu and Shi-Lin Yang, Phytochemistry, Volume 48, Issue 8, August 1998, Pages 1445-1447
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Notes

References

{{Taxonbar, from=Q943024 congestiflora Flora of China Flora of Bhutan Flora of Thailand Flora of Myanmar Flora of Nepal Garden plants of Asia Taxa named by William Hemsley (botanist)