Plantae > Tracheophyta > Magnoliopsida > Myrtales > Lythraceae > Lythrum > Lythrum hyssopifoliaLythrum hyssopifolia (hyssop loosestrife)Synonyms: Chabraea hyssopifolia (homotypic); Hyssopifolia parviflora (homotypic); Lythrum adsurgens; Lythrum glaucum; Lythrum hyssopifolia f. nummulariifolium; Lythrum hyssopifolia var. biflorum; Lythrum hyssopifolia var. latifolium; Lythrum hyssopifolia var. nummulariifolium; Lythrum hyssopifolia var. pumilum; Lythrum hyssopifolium (heterotypic); Lythrum lineare (heterotypic); Lythrum nummulariifolium; Lythrum parviflorum (homotypic); Lythrum prostratum (homotypic); Lythrum tenellum; Lythrum thymifolia (heterotypic); Lythrum thymifolium (heterotypic); Pentaglossum linifolium; Salicaria graefferi (homotypic); Salicaria hyssopifolia (heterotypic) Lythrum hyssopifolia (orth. var. L. hyssopifolium) is a species of flowering plant in the loosestrife family known by the common names hyssop loosestrife and grass-poly. It is native to Europe but it is known elsewhere, including parts of Australia and eastern and western North America, as an introduced species and sometimes a weed. It often grows in moist habitat, such as marshes and wet agricultural fields, rice paddies, for example. This is a mostly upright, branching annual or biennial herb growing 10 to 60 centimeters tall. The oval leaves are arranged oppositely lower on the plant, and often alternately toward the top. They are up to 3 centimeters in length. The inflorescence is a terminal spike of flowers with pinkish petals up to half a centimeter long. The fruit is an oval capsule |
Allergen Potential [1] | Medium-Low | | Height [2] | 6 inches (.15 m) | | Lifespan [2] | Annual | Structure [4] | Herb | | Light Preference [3] | Mostly Sunny | Soil Acidity [3] | Moderate Acid | Soil Fertility [3] | Mostly Infertile | Soil Moisture [3] | Moist |
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Land Use |
Atlantic Northwest Africa |
Algeria, Mauritania, Morocco, Western Sahara |
Palearctic |
Temperate Coastal Rivers |
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Cantabric Coast - Languedoc |
France, Spain |
Palearctic |
Temperate Coastal Rivers |
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Central & Western Europe |
Austria, Belgium, Byelarus, Czech Republic, Denmark, France, Germany, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Poland, Russia, Slovakia, Switzerland, Ukraine, United Kingdom |
Palearctic |
Temperate Floodplain River and Wetlands |
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Eastern Coastal Australia |
Australia |
Australasia |
Tropical and Subtropical Coastal Rivers |
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Eastern Iberia |
Andorra, France, Spain |
Palearctic |
Temperate Coastal Rivers |
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Murray - Darling |
Australia |
Australasia |
Temperate Floodplain River and Wetlands |
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Northern Baltic Drainages |
Denmark, Finland, Norway, Russia, Sweden |
Palearctic |
Polar Freshwaters |
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Southern Iberia |
Portugal, Spain |
Palearctic |
Temperate Coastal Rivers |
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Upper Danube |
Austria, Croatia, Czech Republic, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Poland, Slovakia, Slovenia, Switzerland |
Palearctic |
Temperate Floodplain River and Wetlands |
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Western Iberia |
Portugal, Spain |
Palearctic |
Temperate Coastal Rivers |
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Attributes / relations provided by ♦ 1Derived from Allergy-Free Gardening OPALS™, Thomas Leo Ogren (2000) ♦ 2PLANTATT - Attributes of British and Irish Plants: Status, Size, Life History, Geography and Habitats, M. O. Hill, C. D. Preston & D. B. Roy, Biological Records Centre, NERC Centre for Ecology and Hydrology (2004) ♦ 3ECOFACT 2a Technical Annex - Ellenberg’s indicator values for British Plants, M O Hill, J O Mountford, D B Roy & R G H Bunce (1999) ♦ 4Kattge, J. et al. (2011b) TRY - a global database of plant traits Global Change Biology 17:2905-2935 Ecoregions provided by World Wide Fund For Nature (WWF). WildFinder: Online database of species distributions, ver. 01.06 Wildfinder Database |
Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0
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