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Hyssop Loosestrife

Lythrum hyssopifolia

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Wildlife study photograph from iNaturalist. — (c) yairur, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC-SA)

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Easily confused with

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Where it is recorded

Records by month in California.

United States	3,860
California	2,253
Alaska	1,197
Australia	856
Victoria	594
New Zealand	444
France	191
Portugal	129
South Australia	107
Wellington Region	98

Counts show where people looked, not only where it lives.

Traits

Group and habits

Medicinal useListed as having medicinal use by a harvested source. This is not medical advice.Kew World Checklist of Useful Plant Species

Edibility, toxicity and medicinal traits are records from datasets, not advice. Never eat, handle or use a wild species on the strength of an app.

Classification

Kingdom	Plants · Plantae
Phylum	Vascular Plants · Tracheophyta
Class	Dicots · Magnoliopsida
Order	myrtles, evening primroses, and allies · Myrtales
Family	lythrum family · Lythraceae
Genus	Lythrum Loosestrifes · Lythrum

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Sources

Names, taxonomy and observation counts: www.inaturalist.org
Photos and recordings: the creator and source are on each one.
Traits: Kew World Checklist of Useful Plant Species (CC BY 4.0)
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