| Family | Scientific Name | Common Name | Habitat | Distribution | Image |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Primulaceae | Lysimachia ×producta | Wet barrens in oak flatwoods, other moist areas. | MT, QC, ON, and WI south to NC and TN. | ||
| Primulaceae | Lysimachia asperulifolia | Pocosin Loosestrife, ‘Roughleaf Loosestrife’ | Low pocosins, high pocosins, streamhead pocosins, savanna-pocosin ecotones, sandhill-pocosin ecotones. | Endemic to the Coastal Plain of NC and SC. |  |
| Primulaceae | Lysimachia barystachys | Manchurian Loosestrife | Disturbed areas. | Native of Manchuria. Reported from a single county in nc. GA (Jones & Coile 1988; Kartesz 2020) {further investigate}. |  |
| Primulaceae | Lysimachia clethroides | Gooseneck Loosestrife | Roadsides (cultivated and rarely persistent or escaped). | Native of Japan. Collected in the Mountains of NC (Macon County), escaped from cultivation; it is also reported as naturalized in Grundy County, TN (Chester, Wofford, & Kral 1997, Kral 1981) and White County, GA (C. Horn, pers. comm., 2018). |  |
| Primulaceae | Lysimachia fraseri | Fraser’s Loosestrife | Hardwood forests, forest edges and roadbanks, thin soils around rock outcrops, usually flowering only when exposed to extra sunlight by a tree-fall light gap or other canopy opening. | W. NC and e. TN south to n. SC, n. GA, and AL; disjunct in s. IL and nw. TN (Benton, Humphreys, and Stewart couties). |  |
| Primulaceae | Lysimachia japonica | Japanese Loosestrife, Ko-nasubi, Dwarf Creeping-Jenny, Miniature Moneywort | Grassy places, roadsides, disturbed areas. | Native of Japan and China. Reported for WV (FNA 2009, Harmon, Ford-Werntz, & Grafton 2006), LA (FNA 2009), and e. TN (M. Brock, pers.comm., 2022). |  |
| Primulaceae | Lysimachia loomisii | Carolina Loosestrife | Moist to wet savannas, pocosin ecotones. | Endemic to the outer and middle Coastal Plain of NC, SC, and e. GA |  |
| Primulaceae | Lysimachia maritima | Sea-milkwort | Saline coastal habitats. | The species is interruptedly circumboreal, in North America from QC south to MD on the east coast, and from BC south to OR on the west coast, also inland in w. North America, from SK south to NM. Gleason & Cronquist (1952) suggested that L. maritima is introduced near its southern limit in the east. |  |
| Primulaceae | Lysimachia nummularia | Creeping Jenny, Creeping Charlie, Moneywort | Lawns, pastures, seepages, other moist, disturbed places. | Native of Europe. |  |
| Primulaceae | Lysimachia punctata | Large Loosestrife, Spotted Loosestrife | Disturbed areas. | Native of Eurasia. First found in NC in 1985 (Weakley in prep.). |  |
| Primulaceae | Lysimachia quadrifolia | Whorled Loosestrife | A wide variety of forests and openings, including pine savannas of the outer Coastal Plain, ranging from moist to very dry. | ME west to WI and MN, south to SC, c. GA, AL, and TN. |  |
| Primulaceae | Lysimachia terrestris | Bog Loosestrife, Bog-candles, Swamp-candles | Bogs, wet meadows, and swamp forests. | NL (Newfoundland) west to MN and SK, south to SC, GA, e. TN, and sc. TN. |  |
| Primulaceae | Lysimachia thyrsiflora | Tufted Loosestrife | Bogs, swamps, marshes. | Circumboreal, south in North America to NJ, PA, OH, and MO (Kartesz 1999), WV (FNA), and MD (from Big Marsh, Kent County) (Steury, Tyndall, & Cooley (1996), NE, CO, UT, and CA. |  |
| Primulaceae | Lysimachia vulgaris | Garden Loosestrife | Disturbed bottomlands, marshes, disturbed areas. | Native of Europe. Introduced and naturalized south at least to se. and sc. PA (Rhoads & Klein 1993), WV, KY, MD, and NJ (Kartesz 1999) and now reported for n. VA (Steury, Fleming, & Strong 2008). |  |
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