Kauaʻi record · kba_plant_lysimachia_glutinosa
Lysimachia glutinosa
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About Lysimachia glutinosa
An erect to sprawling shrub with reddish-brown bark and sticky but hairless young shoots. Alternate broad oblanceolate-to-elliptic leaves have smooth margins and pointed tips. Fragrant solitary cream bell flowers have five to ten lobes. Thick woody rounded-to-ovoid capsules split into valves and contain small black angular seeds. This native shrub is a component of Hawaiian vegetation. Monitoring mature plants, new recruits and occupied cover can assess persistence and replacement. The reviewed accounts do not establish a measured Kauaʻi population trend or quantify an ecosystem effect.
Kauaʻi evidence
Generated media is not occurrence evidence. Proposed monitoring endpoints are not reported observations, measured effects or causal findings.
Names and classification
- Scientific name
- Lysimachia glutinosa
- Other names
- Lysimachia glutinosa
- Record type
- Species
Kauaʻi occurrence and status
- Kauaʻi occurrence
- Recorded on Kauaʻi
- Origin
- Endemic
- Conservation status
- Not yet assessed
- Evidence date
- 2026-10-07
- Evidence limits
- Island-level public occurrence only.
Habitat and ecology
- Habitats
- Not yet assessed
- Food and resource needs
- Not yet assessed
- Reproduction
- Not yet assessed
- Shelter
- Not yet assessed
- Growth form
- Shrub or subshrub; Erect or somewhat sprawling shrubs 6-20 dm tall, bark reddish brown; young stems viscid, glabrous.
Threats and conservation
- Monitoring
- Occupied area and vegetation cover; Mature plants and new recruits; Reproductive plants and fruiting frequency. Proposed monitoring endpoints are not reported observations, measured effects or causal findings.
- Data gaps
- Current island extent and population trend · Measured local ecological effects
Process and seasonal context
- Seasonal timing
- Not yet assessed
- Seasonal description
- An erect to sprawling shrub with reddish-brown bark and sticky but hairless young shoots. Alternate broad oblanceolate-to-elliptic leaves have smooth margins and pointed tips. Fragrant solitary cream bell flowers have five to ten lobes. Thick woody rounded-to-ovoid capsules split into valves and contain small black angular seeds. This native shrub is a component of Hawaiian vegetation. Monitoring mature plants, new recruits and occupied cover can assess persistence and replacement. The reviewed accounts do not establish a measured Kauaʻi population trend or quantify an ecosystem effect.