Lysimachia vulgaris L.
(Yellow Loosestrife)

Interactions where Lysimachia vulgaris is the victim or passive partner (and generally loses out from the process)

The following relationships have been collated from the published literature (see 'Interaction References').

Filters:

Affected Part		Summary			Taxon	Vernacular	Classification	References	Darwin Classification of Active Taxon	Active Taxon	Active Vernacular	Active Taxon Uncertain	Active State	Active Part	Active Stage	Relationship	Relationship Uncertain	Relationship Geography	Darwin Classification of Passive Taxon	Passive Taxon	Passive Vernacular	Passive Taxon Uncertain	Passive State	Passive Part	Passive Stage	Passive Taxon's significance to Active Taxon	Indoors etc	Season	Summary
		is grazed by larva			Tapinotus sellatus	a weevil	Coleoptera: Curculionidae	Host Plants of British Beetles: A List of Recorded Associations, Bullock, J.A., 1992	/Animalia/Arthropoda/Insecta/Coleoptera/Curculionidae/Tapinotus sellatus/	Tapinotus sellatus	a weevil				larva	Foodplant / open feeder			/Plantae/Tracheophyta/Magnoliopsida/Ericales/Primulaceae/Lysimachia vulgaris/	Lysimachia vulgaris	yellow loosestrife								larva grazes on
leaf		leaf is grazed by larva			Galerucella sagittariae	a leaf beetle	Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae	Host Plants of British Beetles: A List of Recorded Associations, Bullock, J.A., 1992	/Animalia/Arthropoda/Insecta/Coleoptera/Chrysomelidae/Galerucella sagittariae/	Galerucella sagittariae	a leaf beetle				larva	Foodplant / open feeder			/Plantae/Tracheophyta/Magnoliopsida/Ericales/Primulaceae/Lysimachia vulgaris/	Lysimachia vulgaris	yellow loosestrife			leaf		Sole			larva grazes on leaf
leaf		leaf is grazed by imago			Galerucella sagittariae	a leaf beetle	Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae	Host Plants of British Beetles: A List of Recorded Associations, Bullock, J.A., 1992	/Animalia/Arthropoda/Insecta/Coleoptera/Chrysomelidae/Galerucella sagittariae/	Galerucella sagittariae	a leaf beetle				imago	Foodplant / open feeder			/Plantae/Tracheophyta/Magnoliopsida/Ericales/Primulaceae/Lysimachia vulgaris/	Lysimachia vulgaris	yellow loosestrife			leaf		Sole			imago grazes on leaf
leaf		leaf is grazed by larva			Monostegia abdominalis	a sawfly	Hymenoptera: Tenthredinidae	Hymenoptera: 2. Symphyta. Section (b), Benson, R.B., 1952	/Animalia/Arthropoda/Insecta/Hymenoptera/Tenthredinidae/Monostegia abdominalis/	Monostegia abdominalis	a sawfly				larva	Foodplant / open feeder			/Plantae/Tracheophyta/Magnoliopsida/Ericales/Primulaceae/Lysimachia vulgaris/	Lysimachia vulgaris	yellow loosestrife			leaf		Major			larva grazes on leaf
leaf (live)		live leaf is spotted by amphigenous colony of Ramularia hyphomycetous anamorph			Ramularia lysimachiae	an anamorphic fungus	Capnodiales: Mycosphaerellaceae	Monograph of Cercosporella, Ramularia and Allied Genera - Vol II, Braun, U., 1998	/Fungi/Ascomycota/Dothideomycetes/Capnodiales/Mycosphaerellaceae/Ramularia lysimachiae/	Ramularia lysimachiae	an anamorphic fungus		amphigenous	colony	Ramularia hyphomycetous anamorph	Foodplant / spot causer		Foreign	/Plantae/Tracheophyta/Magnoliopsida/Ericales/Primulaceae/Lysimachia vulgaris/	Lysimachia vulgaris	yellow loosestrife		live	leaf					amphigenous colony of Ramularia hyphomycetous anamorph causes spots on live leaf
leaf (live)		live leaf is spotted by epiphyllous, scattered, blackish pycnidium of Septoria coelomycetous anamorph			Septoria lysimachiae	a leaf-spot fungus	Capnodiales: Mycosphaerellaceae	Fungi of the South East England, Dennis, R.W.G., 1995 Microfungi on Land Plants: An Identification Handbook, Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1997 British Stem- and Leaf- Fungi: Coelomycetes Vol. I … Sphaeropsidales with hyaline conidia, Grove, W.B., 1935	/Fungi/Ascomycota/Dothideomycetes/Capnodiales/Mycosphaerellaceae/Septoria lysimachiae/	Septoria lysimachiae	a leaf-spot fungus		epiphyllous, scattered, blackish	pycnidium	Septoria coelomycetous anamorph	Foodplant / spot causer		UK and/or Eire	/Plantae/Tracheophyta/Magnoliopsida/Ericales/Primulaceae/Lysimachia vulgaris/	Lysimachia vulgaris	yellow loosestrife		live	leaf				(8-10)	epiphyllous, scattered, blackish pycnidium of Septoria coelomycetous anamorph causes spots on live leaf
pollen		pollen is collected to provision nest of female			Macropis europaea	Yellow Loosestrife Bee, Oil Collecting Bee	Hymenoptera: Melittidae	Forage, prey and host-parasite relationships of aculeates, Macdonald, M.A., 2007	/Animalia/Arthropoda/Insecta/Hymenoptera/Melittidae/Macropis europaea/	Macropis europaea	yellow loosestrife bee, oil collecting bee				female	Foodplant / nest		UK and/or Eire	/Plantae/Tracheophyta/Magnoliopsida/Ericales/Primulaceae/Lysimachia vulgaris/	Lysimachia vulgaris	yellow loosestrife			pollen		Sole			female provisions nest with pollen
stem		stem is foodplant of scattered, covered then erumpent pycnidium of Phomopsis coelomycetous anamorph			Phomopsis lysimachiae	a coelomycete	Diaporthales: Diaporthaceae	British Stem- and Leaf- Fungi: Coelomycetes Vol. I … Sphaeropsidales with hyaline conidia, Grove, W.B., 1935	/Fungi/Ascomycota/Sordariomycetes/Diaporthales/Diaporthaceae/Phomopsis lysimachiae/	Phomopsis lysimachiae	a coelomycete		scattered, covered then erumpent	pycnidium	Phomopsis coelomycetous anamorph	Foodplant / feeds on		UK and/or Eire	/Plantae/Tracheophyta/Magnoliopsida/Ericales/Primulaceae/Lysimachia vulgaris/	Lysimachia vulgaris	yellow loosestrife			stem				(4)	scattered, covered then erumpent pycnidium of Phomopsis coelomycetous anamorph feeds on stem
stem (dead)		dead stem is decayed by effuse colony of Phragmocephala dematiaceous anamorph			Phragmocephala elliptica	a dematiaceous anamorphic fungus		Microfungi on Land Plants: An Identification Handbook, Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1997	/Fungi/Ascomycota/Phragmocephala elliptica/	Phragmocephala elliptica	a dematiaceous anamorphic fungus		effuse	colony	Phragmocephala dematiaceous anamorph	Foodplant / saprobe			/Plantae/Tracheophyta/Magnoliopsida/Ericales/Primulaceae/Lysimachia vulgaris/	Lysimachia vulgaris	yellow loosestrife		dead	stem				(4-10)	effuse colony of Phragmocephala dematiaceous anamorph is saprobic on dead stem

Author & Year	Title	Source
Benson, R.B., 1952	Hymenoptera: 2. Symphyta. Section (b)	Handbooks for the Identification of British Insects , Vol VI, Part 2(b), 137pp, The Royal Entomological Society of London
Braun, U., 1998	Monograph of Cercosporella, Ramularia and Allied Genera - Vol II	Phytopathogenic Hyphomycetes, 2, 493pp, IHW-Verlag
Bullock, J.A., 1992	Host Plants of British Beetles: A List of Recorded Associations	11a, 24pp, Amateur Entomologists’ Society
Dennis, R.W.G., 1995	Fungi of the South East England	383pp, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1997	Microfungi on Land Plants: An Identification Handbook	2nd (New Enlarged) edition, 868pp, The Richmond Publishing Co. Ltd
Grove, W.B., 1935	British Stem- and Leaf- Fungi: Coelomycetes Vol. I … Sphaeropsidales with hyaline conidia	Vol I, 488pp, Cambridge University Press
Macdonald, M.A., 2007	Forage, prey and host-parasite relationships of aculeates

Lysimachia vulgaris (Yellow Loosestrife) may also be included in 'fed on by' relations listed under the following higher taxa:

Lysimachia
(yellow loosestrifes)

EU-DICOTS
(dicotyledonous flowering plants)

MAGNOLIOPSIDA
(flowering plants)

TRACHEOPHYTA
(vascular plants)

PLANTAE
(plants)

Herbaceous Plants
(herbaceous plants)

Taxonomic hierarchy:

Species	Lysimachia vulgaris (Yellow Loosestrife)
Genus	Lysimachia (yellow loosestrifes)
Family	PRIMULACEAE (primroses, loosestrifes and pimpernels)
Order	ERICALES (heaths, heathers, azaleas, primroses, loosestrifes and balsams)
Subclass	EU-DICOTS (dicotyledonous flowering plants)
Class	MAGNOLIOPSIDA (flowering plants)
Phylum	TRACHEOPHYTA (vascular plants)
Kingdom	PLANTAE (plants)
Domain	Eukaryota (eukaryotes)
Life	BIOTA (living things)

Lysimachia vulgaris is also a member of:
Herbaceous Plants - herbaceous plants (via Primulaceae)

NBN

NBN (data.nbn.org.uk) has a distribution map for Lysimachia vulgaris (Yellow Loosestrife)

Identification Works

Handling & Magnification	Author	Year	Title	Source
	Sanderson, N.	2006	Restoration of Transition Mires in the New Forest	British Wildlife Vol 17, No. 3: 173-175.

Lysimachia vulgaris (Yellow Loosestrife) may also be included in identification literature listed under the following higher taxa:

MAGNOLIOPSIDA
(flowering plants)

TRACHEOPHYTA
(vascular plants)

PLANTAE
(plants)

Eukaryota
(eukaryotes)

BIOTA
(living things)

Literature listed under the following higher taxa may be relevant to Lysimachia vulgaris (Yellow Loosestrife):

MAGNOLIOPSIDA
(flowering plants)

TRACHEOPHYTA
(vascular plants)

PLANTAE
(plants)

Eukaryota
(eukaryotes)

BIOTA
(living things)

BioImages

BioImages (www.bioimages.org.uk) has 14 images of Lysimachia vulgaris (Yellow Loosestrife)

Creative Commons License

This website is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International Licence.

Unless otherwise expressly stated, all original material on the BioInfo website by Malcolm Storey is licensed under the above Creative Commons Licence.

BioInfo - Wildlife Information (UK)