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Vernacular names of plants within the Genus Lythrum

Hierarchical position of the Genus Lythrum

Regnum  Plantae common name: The plant kingdom       Divisio  Magnoliophyta Cronquist syn. Angiospermophyta / Anthophyta pub. Takht. & Zimmerm. ex Reveal, Phytologia 79: 70. 29 Apr 1996. common name: angiosperms, flowering plants       Subdivisio  Magnoliophytina Frohne & U. Jensen ex Reveal pub. Phytologia 79: 70. 29 Apr 1996. common name: Angiosperms       Classis  Rosopsida Batsch pub. Dispos. Gen. Pl. Jenens.: 28. 1788.       Subclassis  Rosidae Takht. pub. Sist. Filog. Cvetk. Rast.: 264. Jan-Mar 1967.       SuperOrdo  Myrtanae Takht. pub. Sist. Filog. Cvetk. Rast.: 295. Jan-Mar 1967.       Ordo  Myrtales Rchb. pub. Bot. Damen: 475. 1828.       Familia  Lythraceae J. St.-Hil. pub. Expos. Fam. Nat. 2: 175. Feb-Apr 1805. common name: Loosestrife       Subfamilia  Lythroideae Juss. ex Arn. pub. Encycl. Brit., ed. 7, 5: 108. 9 Mar 1832.       Tribus  Lythreae Dumort. pub. Anal. Fam. Pl.: 39. 1829.       Subtribus  Lythrinae Koehne pub. Bot. Jahrb. Syst. 1: 144, 145. 30 Jul 1880.       Genus  Lythrum L. pub. (1753) common name: loosestrife

Named members of the Genus Lythrum

1	Species  adsurgens Greene syn. Lythrum hyssopifolia
2	Species  alatum Pursh
	3    Varietas  alatum common name: winged lythrum 4    Varietas  lanceolatum (Ell.) Torr. & Gray ex Rothrock common name: winged lythrum
5	Species  californicum Torr. & Gray common name: California loosestrife
6	Species  curtissii Fern. common name: Curtiss' loosestrife
7	Species  dacotanum Nieuwl. syn. Lythrum alatum var. alatum
8	Species  flagellare Shuttlw. ex Chapman common name: Florida loosestrife
9	Species  hyssopifolia L. common name: hyssop loosestrife
10	Species  lanceolatum Ell. syn. Lythrum alatum var. lanceolatum
11	Species  lineare L. common name: wand lythrum
12	Species  maritimum Kunth common name: pukamole
13	Species  ovalifolium Koehne common name: low loosestrife
14	Species  portula (L.) D.A. Webber common name: spatulaleaf loosestrife
15	Species  salicaria L. common name: purple loosestrife
	16    Varietas  gracilior Turcz. syn. Lythrum salicaria 17    Varietas  tomentosum (P. Mill.) DC. syn. Lythrum salicaria 18    Varietas  vulgare DC. syn. Lythrum salicaria
19	Species  thymifolia L. common name: thymeleaf loosestrife
20	Species  tribracteatum Salzm. ex Spreng. common name: threebract loosestrife
21	Species  virgatum L. common name: European wand loosestrife
22	Species  vulneraria auct. non Ait. syn. Lythrum flagellare

Individual specimen entries are published in the sample database supplied with The Compleat Botanica for species or varieties of this supra-generic taxon.

Additional information is available in the commercial version of The Compleat Botanica software for species with this symbol.

For a description of the methodology followed in establishing this hierarchy see the note Nomenclature used in The Compleat Botanica.