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Loosestrife Family
1 species
Order: Myrtales
Family: Lythraceae (Loosestrife family)
Genus: Lythrum
Species: Salicaria
Kingdom: Plantae
Division: Magnoliophyta
Updated January 31 2016
More Purple Loosestrife
Class: Magnoliopsida
Purple Loosestrife
Order: Myrtales
Family: Lythraceae (Loosestrife family)
Genus: Lythrum
Species: Salicaria
Kingdom: Plantae
Division: Magnoliophyta
Perennial - native to Eurasia
Updated January 31 2016
More Purple Loosestrife
Class: Magnoliopsida
Perennial - native to Eurasia - It was thought that Purple
Loosestrife would become a dominant invasive plant which
doesn't seem to have occurred possibly due to the
introduction of the Loosestrife Beetle
Loosestrife would become a dominant invasive plant which
doesn't seem to have occurred possibly due to the
introduction of the Loosestrife Beetle
Purple Loosestrife - flower approx. 2 cm - spike 10 to 40 cm - leaves 3 to 10 cm - height to 1.5 m - Lower Don Valley (Crother's Woods) - July 2010
Purple Loosestrife with Loosestrife Beetles - flower approx. 2 cm - spike 10 to 40 cm - leaves 3 to 10 cm - height to 1.5 m - Leslie Spit - May 2011