Purple-loosestrife - Lythrum salicaria
Stout, tall, grey hairy, tufted plant to 1.5 metres. Stems with 4, sometimes more, raised lines. Leaves opposite in whorls of three, the upper sometimes alternate. Flowers reddish purple, 10 to 15 mm in whorls forming long spikes, usually with 6 petals and 12 stamens.
Freshwater margins.
June to August.
Perennial.
Widespread in Britain, but scarce in Scotland except for the west coast.
Occasional in Leicestershire and Rutland. In the 1979 Flora survey of Leicestershire it was found in 41 of the 617 tetrads.
Lorraine Ellison
Stonebow Washlands
15 July 2013
David Gould
Aylestone Meadows
15 August 2014
Graham Calow
Witherley
15 July 2015
David Nicholls
Bagworth Heath
17 September 2011
Alan Semper
Harby canal
27 August 2011 Wash Pit Sapcote SP 4849 9366 (taken 16.7.2007).,.JPG)
Graham Calow
Wash Pit, Sapcote
16 July 2007
Graham Calow
Fosse Meadows, Sharnford
03 August 2014
 Wash Pit Sapcote SP 4849 9366 (taken 16.7.2007).,.JPG)
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Species profile
- Common names
- Purple-loosestrife
- Species group:
- Wildflowers
- Kingdom:
- Plantae
- Order:
- Myrtales
- Family:
- Lythraceae
- Records on NatureSpot:
- 202
- First record:
- 09/05/2007 (Dave Wood)
- Last record:
- 18/10/2023 (Nicholls, David)
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