Purple loosestrife

HIGHLY INVASIVE Purple loosestrife (Lythrum salicaria ) flower(s).

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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!

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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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).

Lythrum salicaria - Purple Loosestrife - pictures, habitat, locations, blooming times and identification guide

Purple loosestrife (Lythrum salicaria) illustration from Medical Botany (1836) by John Stephenson and James Morss Churchill.

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.