<i>Lythrum salicaria </i> - Purple Loosestrife

Lythrum salicaria - Purple Loosestrife

(Cambridgeshire)

Minimum Quantity: 1g

Maximum Quantity: 100g

Seeds per gram: 20000

£3.00

  • £ / 1g : £3.50
  • £ / 10g : £10.00
  • £ / 100g : £41.00
  • £ / 1,000g :  £380.00
  • £ / 10,000g :  —
Quantity (grams)
Subtotal
<1
£3.00
1 - 9
£3.50 per gram
10 - 99
£1.00 per gram
100 - 999
£0.41 per gram
1000+
£0.38 per gram
× Lythrum salicaria - Purple Loosestrife

Description

Purple loosestrife is a garden-worthy native perennial with a spectacular spike of magenta flowers. It is a reasonably tall plant reaching about 1.5m with a square stem and willow-like leaves in opposite pairs or whorls of three. The flowers consist of six petals and 12 stamens and are arranged into a dense spike 10 to 30cm long. Flowering occurs from June to late August.

Habitat Information

Purple loosestrife is a native perennial of permanently wet or occasionally flooded, non-acidic, fertile soils. Natural habitats include the margins of slow-flowing rivers, lakes and in tall herb fen and, as a ready coloniser of new sites, man made habitats such as flooded gravel-pits and quarries. The tall flowering spikes of Purple loosestrife attract a whole host of insects, particularly bees and butterflies.

Growing Information

Grows readily from seed sown at any time of the year.