Lysimachia linum-stellatum

Diminutive herb, to c. 15 cm high, sometimes unbranched. Leaves linear or narrowly oblong, 3–10 mm long, 0.5–1.5 mm wide, margins minutely serrulate, acutely tapered but blunt at the very apex. Flowers on pedicels 1–3 mm long; calyx 2–4 mm long, persisting and the lobes spreading star-like after the capsule has fallen; corolla c. one-third as long as calyx, lobes broadly obovate, with broadly acuminate apex, white; stamens attached at throat of corolla tube. Capsule broadly ovoid or c. spherical, c. 2 mm diam.; seeds c. elliptic, 1 mm long, dark red-brown, concave on inner face, rounded and transversely ridged dorsally. Flowers Aug.–Oct.