Guardian Nature School Team Contact Blog Project Noah Facebook Project Noah Twitter
Project Noah

A worldwide community photographing and learning about wildlife

Join Project Noah!
nature school apple icon

Project Noah Nature School visit nature school

Purple Loosestrife

Lythrum salicaria

Spotting Image 1
  • photo 1
  • photo

Description:

Medicinal herb. Invasive plant.

Habitat:

Nature reserve at Carnegie Mellon University

1 Species ID Suggestions

+2
lynne.warren
lynne.warren 12 years ago
Purple Loosestrife
Lythrum salicaria Purple Loosestrife


Sign in to suggest organism ID

2 Comments

JVM
JVM 12 years ago

Thanks for the info Lynne.

lynne.warren
lynne.warren 12 years ago

This is an invasive species. (pretty to look at but destroys native habitats)

Sign in to comment
JVM
Spotted by
JVM

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

Spotted on Sep 15, 2011
Submitted on Sep 15, 2011

Spotted for Mission

Related Spottings

Lythrum Purple loosestrife Salicària Purple Loosestrife

Nearby Spottings

Goldenrod Cracked-cap polypore (Phellinus rimosus) CMU campus Cracked-cap polypore (Phellinus rimosus) on black locust, CMU campus Eastern Gray Squirrel

Reference

Noah Guardians
Noah Sponsors
join Project Noah Team

Join the Project Noah Team