Lythrum lineare

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Species Distribution Map
Family:LYTHRACEAE
Species:Lythrum lineare L.
Common Name:Saltmarsh Loosestrife; Narrowleaf Loosestrife
Habitat:**
Associated Ecological Communities:**
Growth Habit:Herb
Duration:Perennial
Category:Vascular
USDA Symbol:LYLI2
Plant Notes:Loosestrife is a native herbaceous perennial in the Loosestrife family (Lythraceae). It is native to coastal Alabama. Saltmarsh Loosestrife occurs in brackish to saline marshes. It is a perennial with a short rhizome. Stems are erect, branched above the middle, rounded below and 4-angled on flowering branches, glabrous, and green above and reddish brown below. Leaves are opposite throughout. The leaves are sessile, linear-oblong in outline, glabrous, with entire margins. The leaves are greatly reduced upwards. Late in the season prostrate stolons are produced from the base of the plant that root at the nodes and have spatulate leaves. Flowers are solitary in the axils of the upper bract-like leaves. Each flower has a turbinate ribbed calyx with 5 triangular teeth and intersepalar appendages alternating with them. The intersepalar appendages are narrower and longer than the calyx teeth. The corolla is funnel-form with 6 petals fused at the base into a short tube. The petals range in color from pale lavender to white. The styles are of different lengths in different flowers (heterostylic). The fruit is a capsule.—A. Diamond
Taxonomic Notes:**
Status:Native, OBL (NWI)
References:**
Specimen: View specimen details in the Alabama Herbarium Consortium Specimen Database

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Classification

FamilyLYTHRACEAE - Loosestrife family
Genus Lythrum
Species Lythrum lineare L. - Saltmarsh Loosestrife; Narrowleaf Loosestrife

Citation

Citation Lythrum lineare Linnaeus, Sp. Pl. 1: 447. 1753.
Basionym: **
Type: USA: VIRGINIA: Without data, Clayton 505 (lectotype: LINN 626.7). Lectotypified by J.L. Reveal, in C.E. Jarvis, Order out of Chaos 649. 2007.

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Synonyms

No synonyms exist for this species.

Specimens and Distribution

This species has been reported in the following counties by the herbaria listed. An overview of the individual specimens are provided in the table that follows. Click on the accession number to view details; click on column headers to sort; choose a county or herbaria to filter the specimen data.

Counties included on distribution map: Baldwin, Hale, Madison, Mobile, Washington

Counties represented by specimen data listed below:

Herbaria represented by specimen data listed below: ALNHS, AUA, JSU, SAMF, TROY, UNA, USAM, UWAL

Range of years during which specimens were collected: 1949 - 1980

Barcode / Accession No.
County
Coll. Date
Collector &
Collection No.
Herbarium &
Herbarium Name Used
Image
UNA00019090 Baldwin 10 Aug 1949 Harper, Roland M.
4131		 UNA
Lythrum lineare L.
USAM000008366 Baldwin 29 Jun 1974 LeLong, Michel G.
7993		 USAM
Lythrum lineare Linnaeus
UWAL0037929 Baldwin 29 Jun 1974 LeLong, Michel G.
7993		 UWAL
Lythrum lineare Linnaeus
UWAL0038366 Baldwin 20 Jul 1974 LeLong, Michel G.
8052		 UWAL
Lythrum lineare Linnaeus
USAM000008373 Baldwin 20 Jul 1974 LeLong, Michel G.
8052		 USAM
Lythrum lineare Linnaeus
USAM000008367 Baldwin 04 Oct 1975 LeLong, Michel G.
8804		 USAM
Lythrum lineare Linnaeus
TROY000047203 Baldwin 04 Oct 1975 Lelong, Michel G.
8804		 TROY
Lythrum lineare Linnaeus
UWAL0037720 Baldwin 04 Oct 1975 LeLong, Michel G.
8804		 UWAL
Lythrum lineare L.
UWAL0034833 Baldwin 28 Jun 1991 Kral, Robert
79243		 UWAL
Lythrym lineare Baldw.
UWAL0043364 Baldwin 08 Jul 1993 Walker, M.M.
195		 UWAL
Lythrum lineare L.
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