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• Kingdom- Plantae• Phylum-Magnoliophyta• Class- Magnoliopsida

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• It’s from Europe and Asia • It was distributed in the northeastern USA and

Canada.• It was brought here in the 1800’s • It was used for ornamental and medical uses.• Found today in all 50 states except for Florida.

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• People used Purple Loosestrife by putting it in some types of medicines.

• Since it was brought here to the USA for medical purposes, scientists used this plant in many medicines that we use today.

• There are no consequences for humans.

Purple Loosestrife was used in some itching medicines

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• A change that was made in the ecosystem by Lythrum Salicaria was that it became very large

• It affected other organisms such as native grass, sedges, and other flowering plants because Purple Loosestrife would overtake other plants.

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leaf eating beetle

leaves Root-mining weevil

Purple Loosestrife

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• An adult Purple Loosestrife can produce up to 3 million seeds a year.

• Out of those 3 million seeds, 60-70% of them survive.

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• Herbicides may control the growth for all Purple Loosestrifes.

• One trade-off is that the effect doesn’t last that long on large populations and plants that have been there for many years.

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• The average height of the plant is 5 feet.

• Blossoms every July through September.

• An adult Purple Loosestrife can produce 2.5 million to 2.7 million seeds yearly.