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Npwrc Midwestern Wetland Flora
ML070720623
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Issue date: 03/07/2007
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US Dept of Interior, Geological Survey (USGS)
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Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation
ALICIA MULLINS 301-415-1224
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NPWRC :: Midwestern Wetland Flora USGS Home Contact USGS Search USGS Northern Prairie Wildlife Research Center Winged Lythrum (Lythrum alatum) http://www.npwrc.usgs.gov/resource/plants/floramw/species/lythalat.htm (1 of 4)3/7/2007 11:28:42 AM

NPWRC :: Midwestern Wetland Flora Family: Loosestrife (Lythraceae)

Flowering: June-September.

Field Marks: Purple flowers with usually 6 free petals, a 4-angled stem, and leaves alternate, opposite, or even whorled distinguish this species from all others.

Habitat: Margins of streams, wet meadows, ponds and ditches, wet prairies, marshes, damp areas in rocky glades.

Habit: Herbaceous perennials from tufted roots.

Stems: 1-several, erect, stiffly branching, smooth, 4-angled, up to 3 1/2 feet tall.

Leaves: Upper usually alternate, lower usually opposite or even whorled, simple, linear to broadly lanceolate, pointed at the tip, more or less rounded at the base, the largest up to 2 inches long, without teeth, smooth.

Flowers: Solitary in the axils of the upper leaves, purple, with very short stalks.

Sepals: Usually 6, green, united below to form a tube as long as or longer than the petals.

Petals: Usually 6, purple, free from each other, up to 1/4 inch long.

Stamens: Usually 6, sometimes protruding above the petals, sometimes not.

Pistils: Ovary superior.

Fruits: Capsules somewhat longer than broad, with numerous minute seeds.

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NPWRC :: Midwestern Wetland Flora Notes: The seeds may be eaten by waterfowl.

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