Taxon: Lythrum virgatum L.

• Check PlantSearch database of Botanic Gardens Conservation International for possible non-NPGS germplasm.

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:

CO°, IA*, MNª*, MTª*°, NDª*, NEª*, NVª*, SDª*, TNª*, VAª*, WAª*, WY°.

ªAquatic.

*Terrestrial.

°In seed.

Link to noxious weed information from

Common names:

• purple loosestrife   (Source: State Noxweed Seed ) – English
  
• Ruten-Weiderich   (Source: Zander Ency ) – German
  
• smalt fackelblomster   (Source: Vara kulturvaxt namn ) – Swedish
  

Economic importance:

• Environmental: ornamental   (fide Dict Gard)
  
• Weed   (fide State Noxweed Seed)
  

Distributional range:

• ASIA-TEMPERATE
  Caucasus: Azerbaijan; Russian Federation - Ciscaucasia, Dagestan
  Siberia: Russian Federation - Altay, Eastern Siberia, Western Siberia
  Middle Asia: Kazakhstan; Kyrgyzstan; Uzbekistan
  Mongolia: Mongolia [n.]
  China: China - Hebei, Xinjiang
• EUROPE
  Middle Europe: Austria; Czechoslovakia; Hungary; Poland
  East Europe: Belarus; Moldova; Russian Federation - European part; Ukraine [incl. Krym]
  Southeastern Europe: Albania; Bulgaria; Former Yugoslavia; Greece; Italy; Romania

• EUROPE
  Middle Europe: Germany
  Southwestern Europe: France

• NORTHERN AMERICA
  Northeastern U.S.A.: United States - Massachusetts

• NORTHERN AMERICA
  Northeastern U.S.A.: United States - Massachusetts [also cult.]

References:

• Aldén, B., S. Ryman & M. Hjertson. 2009. Våra kulturväxters namn - ursprung och användning. Formas, Stockholm (Handbook on Swedish cultivated and utility plants, their names and origin).
• Chinese Academy of Sciences. 1959–. Flora reipublicae popularis sinicae.
• Crow, G. E. & C. B. Hellquist. 2000. Aquatic and wetland plants of northeastern North America, 2 vol.
• Erhardt, W. et al. 2008. Der große Zander: Enzyklopädie der Pflanzennamen.
• Greuter, W. et al., eds. 1984–. Med-Checklist.
• Huxley, A., ed. 1992. The new Royal Horticultural Society dictionary of gardening.
• Komarov, V. L. et al., eds. 1934–1964. Flora SSSR.
• Magee, D. W. & H. E. Ahles. 1999. Flora of the Northeast. A manual of the vascular flora of New England and adjacent New York.
• 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.
• Tutin, T. G. et al., eds. 1964–1980. Flora europaea.

More:

Search AGRICOLA article citation database for citations referencing Lythrum virgatum.

Search NCBI's Entrez search engine for PubMed citations referencing Lythrum virgatum.

Search Biodiversity Heritage Library for historical publications referencing Lythrum virgatum.

Check other web resources for Lythrum virgatum L.:

• Flora Europaea: Database of European Plants (ESFEDS)
• PLANTS: USDA-NRCS Database of Plants of the United States and its Territories
• BONAP: North American Plant Atlas of the Biota of North America Program
• TROPICOS: Nomenclatural and Specimen Database of the Missouri Botanical Garden
• 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.

Images:

• Seed: U.S. National Seed Herbarium image

More:

• Check PlantSystematics.org for additional images
• 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.

Abbreviations & symbols in GRIN Taxonomy

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