Taxon: Lythrum salicaria L.
Genus: Lythrum
Family: Lythraceae.
Nomen number: 23022
Place of publication: Sp. pl. 1:446. 1753
Typification: View record from Linnaean Plant Name Typification Project
of the Natural History Museum of London.
Name verified on: 11-May-1992 by ARS Systematic Botanists. Last updated: 23-Aug-1994
Species priority site is: North Central Regional PI Station (NC7). Accessions:
1 in National Plant Germplasm System.
SPECIES RESTRICTED BECAUSE STATE NOXIOUS WEED
- A declared aquatic or terrestrial noxious
weed and/or noxious-weed seed in these U.S. states (see state noxious weed lists), with links
to state information or web documents:
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ALª*, ARª*, CAª*, COª*°, CTª*, FLª, IAª*, IDª*°, ILª*, MAª*, MNª*, MOª*, MTª*°, NDª*, NEª*°, NHª*°, NJ°, NMª*, NVª*, OHª*°, OKª, ORª*, PAª*, SCª, SDª*, TNª*, TXª*, UT°, VAª*, VTª*°, WAª*, WIª*, WYª*°.
| ªAquatic.
| *Terrestrial.
| °In seed.
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- Link to noxious weed information from

- Link to species profile at

- purple loosestrife (Source: World Econ Pl
) – English
- purple lythrum (Source: State Noxweed Seed
) – English
- spiked loosestrife (Source: Hortus 3
) – English
- abre-o-sol (Source: D. Groth, p.c. 2005) – Portuguese (Brazil)
- erva-da-vida (Source: D. Groth, p.c. 2005) – Portuguese (Brazil)
- quebra-arado (Source: D. Groth, p.c. 2005) – Portuguese (Brazil)
- vassourinha (Source: D. Groth, p.c. 2005) – Portuguese (Brazil)
- More:
Native: (links to
other web resources are provided for some distributions)
- AFRICA
Northern Africa: Algeria; Morocco; Tunisia
- ASIA-TEMPERATE
Western Asia: Afghanistan; Iran; Israel; Jordan; Lebanon; Syria; Turkey Caucasus: Armenia; Azerbaijan; Georgia; Russian Federation - Ciscaucasia, Dagestan Siberia: Russian Federation - Eastern Siberia Russian Far East: Russian Federation - Amur, Primorye, Sakhalin Mongolia: Mongolia China: China [throughout] Eastern Asia: Japan - Hokkaido, Honshu, Kyushu, Shikoku
- ASIA-TROPICAL
Indian Subcontinent: India [n.]; Pakistan
- AUSTRALASIA
Australia: Australia - Queensland, South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria
- EUROPE
Northern Europe: Denmark; Finland; Ireland; Norway; Sweden; United Kingdom Middle Europe: Austria; Belgium; Czechoslovakia; Germany; Hungary; Netherlands; Poland; Switzerland East Europe: Belarus; Estonia; Latvia; Lithuania; Moldova; Russian Federation - European part; Ukraine [incl. Krym] Southeastern Europe: Albania; Bulgaria; Former Yugoslavia; Greece; Italy [incl. Sardinia, Sicily]; Romania Southwestern Europe: France [incl. Corsica]; Portugal; Spain
Naturalized: (links to
other web resources are provided for some distributions)
- naturalized in s. Africa, Australia, New Zealand, United States, & Canada
- Center for Aquatic and Invasive Plants.
Florida state list aquatic & wetland noxious weeds - from Department of Environmental Protection - on-line document. (FL AquaNoxweed)
- Chinese Academy of Sciences.
1959–. Flora reipublicae popularis sinicae. (F China)
- Conant, P. et al.
1997. Appendix. Selected plant species interfering with resource management goals in North American natural areas. In J. O. Luken & J. W. Thieret, eds., Assessment and management of plant invasions. (Pl Invasion)
- Duke, J. A. et al.
2002. CRC Handbook of medicinal herbs. (CRC MedHerbs ed2)
- Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN (FAO).
2010. Ecocrop - on-line resource. (Ecocrop)
- Greuter, W. et al., eds.
1984–. Med-Checklist. (L Medit)
- Greuter, W. et al., eds.
2000. International code of botanical nomenclature (Saint Louis Code). (ICBN St Louis)
Art. 23.5, Ex. 6.
- Groth, D.
2005. pers. comm. [re. Brazilian common names].
- Henderson, L.
2001. Alien weeds and invasive plants: a complete guide to declared weeds and invaders in South Africa. Plant Protection Research Institute, Handbook 12. (Weeds SAfr 2001)
- Hnatiuk, R. J.
1990. Census of Australian vascular plants. Australian Flora and Fauna Series No. 11. (L Aust)
- Holm, L. et al.
1979. A geographical atlas of world weeds. (Atlas WWeed)
- Huxley, A., ed.
1992. The new Royal Horticultural Society dictionary of gardening. (Dict Gard)
- Kartesz, J. T.
1994. A synonymized checklist of the vascular flora of the United States, Canada, and Greenland. (L US Can ed2)
- Komarov, V. L. et al., eds.
1934–1964. Flora SSSR. (F USSR)
- Liberty Hyde Bailey Hortorium.
1976. Hortus third. (Hortus 3)
- McGuffin, M., J. T. Kartesz, A. Y. Leung, & A. O. Tucker.
2000. Herbs of commerce, ed. 2. (Herbs Commerce ed2)
- Ohwi, J.
1965. Flora of Japan (Engl. ed.). (F JapanOhwi)
- Rechinger, K. H., ed.
1963–. Flora iranica. (F Iran)
- Seed Regulatory and Testing Branch, Agricultural Marketing Service, U.S.D.A.
1999. State noxious-weed seed requirements recognized in the administration of the Federal Seed Act. (State Noxweed Seed)
- USDA National Agricultural Library.
National Invasive Species Information Center (Nat Invasive Sp Info)
- Weber, E.
2003. Invasive plant species of the world: a reference guide to environmental weeds. (Invasive Pl Spec)
- More:
Check other databases for Lythrum salicaria L.:
- AVH: Australia's Virtual Herbarium Map Display Interface
- PLANTS: USDA-NRCS Database of Plants of
the United States and its Territories
- TROPICOS: Nomenclatural and Specimen Database of the Missouri Botanical Garden
- Mansfeld: Mansfeld's World Database of Agricultural and Horticultural Crops
- ePIC: Electronic Plant Information Centre of Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
- AGRICOLA: Article Citation Database or NAL Catalog of USDA's National Agricultural Library
- Entrez: NCBI's search engine for PubMed
citations, GenBank sequences, etc.
Note: Defaults to a search by genus
or species epithet if species binomial not found.
Images:
- More:
- Check PlantSystematics.org for additional images
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Images Note: Be advised that their identity may be
inaccurate. Proper identification of a plant may require
specialized taxonomic knowledge or comparison with
properly documented herbarium material.
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Cite as: USDA, ARS, National Genetic Resources Program.
Germplasm Resources Information Network - (GRIN) [Online Database]. National Germplasm Resources Laboratory, Beltsville,
Maryland.
URL: http://www.ars-grin.gov/cgi-bin/npgs/html/taxon.pl?23022 (09 February 2010)
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