FNPS Plant Database
Lythrum flagellare
Nomenclature
Common Name:
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Family:
Lythraceae
Plant Specifics
Form:
Size:
Life Span:
long-lived perennial
Flower Color:
Fruit Color:
Phenology:
Noted For:
Landscaping
Recommended Uses:
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Availability:
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Light:
Moisture Tolerance:
Always Flooded---------------------------------Extremely Dry
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Usually moist, occasional inundation
-to- Not wet but not extremely dry
Salt Water Flooding
Tolerance:
Unknown
Salt Spray/Salty Soil Tolerance:
Low/no tolerance of salty wind or direct salt spray
Soil or Other Substrate:
Sand, Loam, Organic
Soil pH:
Suitable to Grow In:
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Vouchered In:
Ecology
Wildlife:
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Citations:
Florida Wildflower Foundation. (Undated). Flower Friday: Florida loosestrife. ( https://www.flawildflowers.org/flower-friday-lythrum-flagellare/ ). Accessed 2026. Florida Wildflower Foundation, Maitland, FL.
Kral, R. (1983). A report on some rare, threatened, or endangered forest-related vascular plants of the South. Volume I. Isoetaceae through Euphorbiaceae. Volume II. Aquifoliaceae through Asteraceae and glossary.
Long, Robert W. and Olga Lakela. (1971). A Flora of Tropical Florida. A Manual of the Seed Plants and Ferns of Southern Peninsular Florida. University of Miami Press, Miami, FL.
Weakley, A.S., D.B. Poindexter, H.C. Medford, B.A. Sorrie, C.A. McCormick, E.L. Bridges, S.L. Orzell, K.A. Bradley, H.E. Ballard, Jr., R.N. Burwell, S.L. Lockhart, A.R. Franck. (2020). Studies in the vascular flora of the southeastern United States. VI. Journal of the Botanical Research Institute of Texas, 14(2), 199–239.
Wunderlin, R. P., B. F. Hansen, A. R. Franck, and F. B. Essig. (1999+). Atlas of Florida Plants. ( https://florida.plantatlas.usf.edu/ ). [S. M. Landry and K. N. Campbell (application development), USF Water Institute.] Institute for Systematic Botany, University of South Florida, Tampa, FL.
