Vascular Plants of North Carolina
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Account for Dotted Loosestrife - Lysimachia punctata   L.
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DistributionThe 2 collections are from the same garden in Carrboro (Orange County) in 1965. Therefore this species should be deleted from the NC flora.
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Taxonomic CommentsWeakley (2020) has split out Steironema from Lysimachia based on a 2018 paper using molecular research; and in so doing has gone back to "old" taxonomy. In Lysimachia there are no staminodes and the leaves are punctate with elongate markings (vs. staminodes present and punctae absent in Steironema).
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