Swamp Candles are beautiful plants, mostly found in wetlands, sometimes on the edge of the woods where woods and wetland meet.
Swamp candles are in the genus Lysimachia, with fringed loosestrife and prairie loosestrife (both native),but in an entirely different genus than purple loosestrife (not native). Of all of the plant in this genus in Michigan, these are the showiest with the flowers in a spike held above the foliage. Leaves are opposite each other, lance-shaped and toothless around the edges.
Instead of producing nectar, these plants make floral oil that is collected by some bees for their offspring. Other insect collect pollen or eat the foliage.
If you don’t have a wetland to plant these in, you enjoy them in a pot and keep them watered during dry times.
Swamp Candles (Lysimachia terrestris)
Michigan Flora reference page for statewide distribution: Swamp Candles
Height: 1-3’
Bloom Time: June-August
Soil: mop set tp wet loam, loamy sand, muck
Sun: part-sun to full sun
Plant spacing: 12”
Flower: yellow
Life cycle: perennial
Family: Myrsinaceae
Seed source: Michigan
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Swamp Candles are beautiful plants, mostly found in wetlands, sometimes on the edge of the woods where woods and wetland meet.
Swamp candles are in the genus Lysimachia, with fringed loosestrife and prairie loosestrife (both native),but in an entirely different genus than purple loosestrife (not native). Of all of the plant in this genus in Michigan, these are the showiest with the flowers in a spike held above the foliage. Leaves are opposite each other, lance-shaped and toothless around the edges.
Instead of producing nectar, these plants make floral oil that is collected by some bees for their offspring. Other insect collect pollen or eat the foliage.
If you don’t have a wetland to plant these in, you enjoy them in a pot and keep them watered during dry times.
Swamp Candles (Lysimachia terrestris)
Michigan Flora reference page for statewide distribution: Swamp Candles
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