Kauaʻi record · kba_plant_lysimachia_pendens
Lysimachia pendens
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About Lysimachia pendens
A small, delicately hanging, many-branched shrub with tan hairs on young shoots. Closely spaced narrow lanceolate leaves taper at both ends and are brown-hairy beneath. Solitary red flowers have five to seven broad corolla lobes and hairy stalks. Rounded capsules contain dark-brown irregular 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 pendens
- Other names
- Lysimachia pendens
- 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; Small, many branched, delicately pendulous shrubs; stems 20-60 mm long, densely tan tomentose when young, glabrate.
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
- A small, delicately hanging, many-branched shrub with tan hairs on young shoots. Closely spaced narrow lanceolate leaves taper at both ends and are brown-hairy beneath. Solitary red flowers have five to seven broad corolla lobes and hairy stalks. Rounded capsules contain dark-brown irregular 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.