Purple Loosestrife

Purple Loosestrife
Lythrum salicaria
Purple loosestrife was introduced to America as a garden plant. It has escaped from gardens and become a noxious weed in wetlands.

Purple Loosestrife
By Lou Paun
This plant can be extremely invasive.

Purple loosestrife also readily reproduces vegetatively through underground stems at a rate of about one foot per year. Many new stems may emerge vegetatively from a single rootstock of the previous year.

Purple Loosestrife, Purple Loosestrife Or Lythrum, Purple Lythrum, Rainbow Weed, Salicaire, Spiked Loosestrife
Common Names in German:
Blutweiderich ...

Purple loosestrife's flowers are a bright, clear shade of purple that tempts many into inviting it into their gardens - but don't do it (unless you live in Europe, its native range, in which case, enjoy!) ...

Purple Loosestrife, Lanceleaf Loosestrife, Loosestrife,Purple
Species:
Lythrum lanceolatum ...

Purple loosestrife is in most U.S. states, but not recorded in Florida.

Purple Loosestrife - Guide to Weeds in British Columbia
British Columbia Ministry of Agriculture Food and Fisheries (Canada).
Identification/Description; Photographs; Illustrations; Impacts; Life Cycle; Habitat; Distribution; Dispersion; Controls ...

The Purple Loosestrife, on the other hand, is more nearly allied to the Willow herbs.
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"Although purple loosestrife does have a pretty flower, it is very important to understand that it is not a good plant to have around.

Description:
Purple Loosestrife often takes about three years to achieve mature size in the landscape, when a sufficient number of stems originate from the crown to give this upright perennial a dense head of wispy, pink-lavendar inflorescences.

Lythrum salicaria
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Hardiness Zones:
1 ...

The name is commonly cited unhyphenated as purple loosestrife, but it should not be confused with other plants sharing the name loosestrife that are members of the family Primulaceae.

Tall spikes of rosy-purple bottlebrush-type pink-purple or white blooms at the tips of the plant. A good substitute for purple loosestrife. (To 1.5m - 5') Blooms July to September. Must have well drained soil. Full sun. An easy to grow perennial.

Purple loosestrife (Lythrum salicaria)
Rush skeletonweed (Chondrilla juncea)
Sericea lespedeza (Lespedeza cuneata)
Squarrose knapweed (Centaurea virgata)
Tansy ragwort (Senecio jacobaea)
Yellow starthistle (Centaurea solstitialis) ...

Lythrum salicaria Purple Loosestrife
Miscanthus sinensis Silver Grass; Zebra Grass
Macleaya species Plume Poppy
Mentha speciesMint
Oenothera species Evening Primrose
Persicaria virginiana Tovara
Phalaris arundinaceae var. picta Ribbon Grass ...

Yellow flag iris (Iris pseudacorus ), greater spearwort (Ranunculus lingua), sedges (Carex spp.), rushes (Juncus spp.), purple loosestrife (Lythrum salicaria), ...

Prickly Saltwort, Prickly Sedge, Prickly Sow-thistle, Primrose, Procumbent Pearlwort, Proliferous Pink, Prostrate Toadflax, Pugley's Marsh Orchid, Purging Flax, Purple Broomrape, Purple Coltsfoot, Purple Flag, Purple Gromwell, Purple Loosestrife, ...

Purple Loosestrife (Lythrum salicaria 'Robert')
Purple Moor Grass (Molinia caerulea 'Variegata')
Purple Mullein (Verbascum phoeniceum)
Purple New Zealand Flax (Phormium tenax 'Atropurpureum') ...

Purple loosestrife Lythrum salicaria L. (Category 1)
Queen of the Night Cereus jamacaru DC. (Category 1)
Radiata pine Pinus radiata D.Don (Category 2)
Rambling cassia Senna bicapsularis (L.) Roxb. (Category 3)
Red eye Acacia cyclops A.Cunn. ex G.

Purple loosestrife (Lythrum salicaria)
Pygmy bamboo (Arundinaria pygmaea)
Pygmy caragana, pygmy peashrub (Caragana pygmaea)
Pyrethrum, painted daisy (Chrysanthemum cinerariifolium) ...

See also: Loosestrife, Grass, May, Sedge, Green