| Scientific Name: | Lysimachia latifolia |
| Common Name: | starflower |
| Family Name: | Primulaceae |
| Origin: | North America |
| Hardiness Zone: | Zone 3: (-40 to -34 °C) |
| Plant Type: | Herbaceous perennial |
| Mature Size: | 0.1 - 0.2m x 0.1 - 0.3m (height x width) |
| Habit: | Upright |
| Form: | Vase |
| Texture: | Medium |
| Landscape Uses: | Spring interest, Woodland margin |
| Exposure: | Part sun/part shade, Filtered shade, Deep shade |
| Soil or Media: | Well-drained |
| Leaves: | Simple, Whorled, Soft flexible, Glabrous, Elliptic, Oblanceolate, Entire |
| Flowers: | Flowers solitary, White, Pink, May-Jun |
| Fruit: | Capsule, Brown, Jul-Aug |
| Key ID Features: | |
| Leaves in whorls of 5-9 (at top of a usually green stem 5-20cm tall), most elliptic to oblanceolate, entire margins glabrous, 3-8cm long x 1-2cm wide; flowers about 1cm wide, with (5-)6(-7) long white petals and 5 shorter green sepals. | |