Lysimachia daphnoides, a member of the Primulaceae (primrose) family, is a small shrub forming clumps 20 to 50 cm (0.7 to 1.6 ft) tall, with several stems, and reddish brown to dark brown bark. Leaves are closely spaced, alternate, and oblong to oblanceolate (rounded apex and tapering base), 20 to 53 mm (mm) (0.8 to 2.1 in) long, and 6 to 14 mm (0.2 to 0.6 in) wide. Flowers are solitary in the leaf axils, 6 to 7-merous, with a campanulate (bell-shaped) corolla, dark purple or dark burgundy. Capsules are subglobose (somewhat ball-shaped) and seeds are dark brown and 2 mm (0.08 in) long.