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Lythrum L.

Rantakukat
Lythrum, Den Virtuella Floran [DVF]

Foodplants for Chloroclystis v-ata, Dysgonia algira, Leptotes pirithous

Lythrum portula (L.) D. A. Webb.

Ojakaali Yleinen ojakaali Rödlånke
Peplis portula L.
Lythrum portula ; [RK, 293]
Peplis portula ; [SK, 414]

546x408 (~47Kb) Finland, Lempäälä, Ahtialanjärvi, 19.8.1998, Photo © Harri Arkkio

Lythrum salicaria L.

Rantakukka Yleinen rantakukka Purple Loosestrife Spiked Loosestrife Fackelblomster
Lythrum salicaria, Aquatic and Wetland Vascular Plants of the Northern Great Plains [USGS]
Lythrum salicaria, Bilder ur Nordens Flora (in Swedish) [RUNEBERG]
Lythrum salicaria ; [RK, 293]; [SK, 413]; [GMBOT, 592]; [FPN, 303]

500x903 (~63Kb) FINLAND: N: Pernaja, 670:45, 10.8.1996, Photo © Markku Savela	500x872 (~41Kb) FINLAND: N: Pernaja, 670:45, 10.8.1996, Photo © Markku Savela	550x359 (~86Kb) A small forest swamp on the Ob' River right floodland between the villages Nizhnyaya El'tsovka and Pravye Chemy, Novosibirsk District and Province, West Siberia, Russia. 2nd August 1998, Photo © Oleg Kosterin
600x983 (~107Kb) USA: Dry Falls / Sun Lakes State Park, Grant Co., WA, 9.7.2000, Photo © Markku Savela	600x948 (~167Kb) FINLAND: V: Pyhäranta, Rihtniemi, 978:19, July 1989, Photo © Hannele Aulin	737x942 (~65Kb) Finland, Vehkalahti, Vilniemi, 7.8.2004, Photo © Harri Arkkio

Foodplant for Acleris lorquiniana, Acronicta auricoma, A. euphorbiae, A. menyanthidis, A. rumicis, Anticollix sparsatus, Aristotelia subdecurtella, Biston betularius, Cryptoblabes gnidiella, Diaphora mendica, Ectropis crepuscularia, Lacanobia oleracea, Leptotes pirithous, Orthosia gothica, Proserpinus proserpina

L. s. var. tomentosum (Mill.) DC.

Lythrum salicaria var. tomentosum ; [GMBOT, 593]

Lythrum junceum Banks & Solander

Kimppurantakukka False Grass-poly

760x1020 (~75Kb) Greece: Ipiros, path Parga - Anthousa, 7.6.2006, Photo © Harri Arkkio

741x1015 (~62Kb) Greece: Ipiros, path Parga - Anthousa, 7.6.2006, Photo © Harri Arkkio

790x996 (~72Kb) Greece: Ipiros, path Parga - Anthousa, 7.6.2006, Photo © Harri Arkkio

Lythrum hyssopifolia L.

'Iisoppirantakukka' Grass-poly Hyssop Loosestrife
Lythrum hyssopifolia ; [FPN, 303]; [GMBOT, 592]

600x885 (~116Kb) Magnuson Park, Seattle, 26.6.2000, Photo © Markku Savela

700x799 (~79Kb) Magnuson Park, Seattle, 26.6.2000, Photo © Markku Savela

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References:

[DVF]

Den Virtuella floran; http://linnaeus.nrm.se/flora/welcome.html; Ett projekt vid Naturhistoriska riksmuseet (Stockholm, Sweden).; Even for non-Swedish speaker, the distribution maps on species are nice (map buttons "Norden" and "Norra halvklotet")

[FPN]

Hitchcock & Cronquist, 1998; Flora of the Pacific Northwest (11th ed.); ISBN 0-295-95273-3

[GMBOT]

Robinson, Benjamin L., Fernald, Merrit Lyndon, 1908; Gray's New Manual of Botany (7th edition); A Handbook of the Flowering Plants and Ferns of the Central and Northeastern United States and adjacent Canada; American Book Company

[Harri Arkkio]

Finland

[Oleg Kosterin]

Institue of Cytology & Genetics; Siberian Division of Russian Academy of Sciences; Novosibirsk; e-mail: Oleg Kosterin; http://pisum.bionet.nsc.ru/kosterin/

[RK]

Hämet-Ahti, L., Suominen, J., Ulvinen, T. & Uotila, P. (eds), 1998; Retkeilykasvio (Field Flora of Finland); Ed. 4. 656 pp.; Finnish Museum of Natural History, Botanical Museum. Helsinki

[RUNEBERG]

Project Runeberg: Nordic literature online; Project Runeberg; Bilder ur Nordens Fauna (Carl Axel Magnus Lindman)

[SK]

Mela, A. J., Cajander, A. K., 1906; Suomen Kasvio; Viides painos

[USGS]

Northern Prairie Wildlife Research Center; http://www.npwrc.usgs.gov/index.htm

If you have corrections, comments or information to add into these pages, just send mail to Markku Savela
Keep in mind that the taxononic information is copied from various sources, and may include many inaccuracies. Expert help is welcome.