Purple loosestrife

Lythrum salicaria - Purple Loosestrife

Purple loosestrife is a wetland perennial native to Europe and Asia that is an invasive problem in North American aquatic habitats. This plant was primarily spread across the continent as an ornamental. Today it can be found across the entire northern half of the United States. Photographed along the Missouri River in South Dakota by Sam Stukel (USFWS).

Purple loosestrife (Lythrum salicaria) growing, care, seeds, benefits, uses and facts. How to properly care for and plant spiked loosestrife in ponds.

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Spectacular when in full bloom, Purple Loosestrife (Lythrum salicaria) is a vigorous, upright perennial enjoying an extremely long bloom season from late spring to late summer. It features pink, purple, or magenta flowers in dense spikes, up to 18 in. long (45 cm) held atop lance-shaped leaves.

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I wanted to share with you all about a bioregionally abundant plant that’s often misunderstood, Purple Loosestrife (Lythrum salicaria). You’ll see it flowering right now throughout the northeast, midwest, and pacific northwest, especially in wet medaows, roadsides, lakesides, estuaries and marshes. To many, it’s a maligned “invasive” plant with little to no value, however this plant has been worked with medicinally since ancient times throughout it’s native range and many herbalists are…

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Purple Loosestrife is a highly invasive plant introduced to North America. Scientifically known as Lythrum salicaria, it typically grows 2-6′ tall and blooms densely flowered purple spikes in full sun and moist soil along pond edges or wetlands. Spreading by seed and rhizome, it can colonize and outcompete native plants in a few years and become dominant.

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Purple Loosestrife is an under-appreciated herb, often labeled as "invasive". And yet, it's so amazingly helpful, for the soil, for pollinators, and humans - I'm grateful it's so abundant!

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