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      "scientific_name": "Lythrum curtissii",
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      "documented": false,
      "url": null
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      "scientific_name": "Lythrum flagellare",
      "authorship": "Shuttlew. ex Chapm.",
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      "scientific_name": "Lythrum flexuosum",
      "authorship": "Lag.",
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      "documented": false,
      "url": null
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Lythrum gracile",
      "authorship": "Benth.",
      "wfo": "wfo-0001075999",
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      "url": "https://botanai.app/plants/lythrum-gracile/"
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      "scientific_name": "Lythrum hyrcanicum",
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      "url": null
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      "scientific_name": "Lythrum hyssopifolia",
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      "url": "https://botanai.app/plants/lythrum-hyssopifolia/"
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      "scientific_name": "Lythrum intermedium",
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      "scientific_name": "Lythrum junceum",
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    {
      "scientific_name": "Lythrum komarovii",
      "authorship": "Murav.",
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      "url": null
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      "documented": false,
      "url": null
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      "scientific_name": "Lythrum maritimum",
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      "documented": true,
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    {
      "scientific_name": "Lythrum nanum",
      "authorship": "Kar. & Kir.",
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      "photographs_found": 0,
      "documented": false,
      "url": null
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Lythrum netofa",
      "authorship": "Vered, Mazar & Gazaix",
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      "documented": false,
      "url": null
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      "scientific_name": "Lythrum ovalifolium",
      "authorship": "(A.Gray) Shuttlew. ex Koehne",
      "wfo": "wfo-0001075916",
      "slug": "lythrum-ovalifolium",
      "photographs_found": 10,
      "documented": true,
      "url": "https://botanai.app/plants/lythrum-ovalifolium/"
    },
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      "scientific_name": "Lythrum paradoxum",
      "authorship": "Koehne",
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      "slug": "lythrum-paradoxum",
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      "documented": false,
      "url": null
    },
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      "scientific_name": "Lythrum portula",
      "authorship": "(L.) D.A.Webb",
      "wfo": "wfo-0000366868",
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      "documented": true,
      "url": "https://botanai.app/plants/lythrum-portula/"
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Lythrum rotundifolium",
      "authorship": "Hochst. ex A.Rich.",
      "wfo": "wfo-0001274331",
      "slug": "lythrum-rotundifolium",
      "photographs_found": 1,
      "documented": false,
      "url": null
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Lythrum salicaria",
      "authorship": "L.",
      "wfo": "wfo-0000366878",
      "slug": "lythrum-salicaria",
      "photographs_found": 6311,
      "documented": true,
      "url": "https://botanai.app/plants/lythrum-salicaria/"
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Lythrum schelkovnikovi",
      "authorship": "Sosn.",
      "wfo": "wfo-0000366870",
      "slug": "lythrum-schelkovnikovi",
      "photographs_found": 0,
      "documented": false,
      "url": null
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Lythrum silenoides",
      "authorship": "Boiss. & Noë",
      "wfo": "wfo-0000366919",
      "slug": "lythrum-silenoides",
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      "documented": false,
      "url": null
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Lythrum theodori",
      "authorship": "Sosn.",
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      "slug": "lythrum-theodori",
      "photographs_found": 0,
      "documented": false,
      "url": null
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Lythrum thesioides",
      "authorship": "M.Bieb.",
      "wfo": "wfo-0000366931",
      "slug": "lythrum-thesioides",
      "photographs_found": 0,
      "documented": false,
      "url": null
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Lythrum thymifolia",
      "authorship": "L.",
      "wfo": "wfo-0000366930",
      "slug": "lythrum-thymifolia",
      "photographs_found": 3,
      "documented": true,
      "url": "https://botanai.app/plants/lythrum-thymifolia/"
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Lythrum tribracteatum",
      "authorship": "Salzm. ex Spreng.",
      "wfo": "wfo-0000366922",
      "slug": "lythrum-tribracteatum",
      "photographs_found": 33,
      "documented": true,
      "url": "https://botanai.app/plants/lythrum-tribracteatum/"
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Lythrum virgatum",
      "authorship": "L.",
      "wfo": "wfo-0000366909",
      "slug": "lythrum-virgatum",
      "photographs_found": 117,
      "documented": true,
      "url": "https://botanai.app/plants/lythrum-virgatum/"
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Lythrum volgense",
      "authorship": "D.A.Webb",
      "wfo": "wfo-0000366905",
      "slug": "lythrum-volgense",
      "photographs_found": 0,
      "documented": false,
      "url": null
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Lythrum vulneraria",
      "authorship": "Ait. ex Schrank",
      "wfo": "wfo-0001075972",
      "slug": "lythrum-vulneraria",
      "photographs_found": 6,
      "documented": true,
      "url": "https://botanai.app/plants/lythrum-vulneraria/"
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Lythrum wilsonii",
      "authorship": "Hewson",
      "wfo": "wfo-0000366942",
      "slug": "lythrum-wilsonii",
      "photographs_found": 0,
      "documented": false,
      "url": null
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  "evidence_gate": {
    "rule": "at least 3 photographs licensed for commercial use",
    "rationale": "This site is commercial, so it can only publish photographs licensed for commercial use. Roughly three quarters of the photographs on iNaturalist are CC BY-NC, which excludes them. A species below the gate is listed here rather than given a page of its own."
  },
  "sources": [
    {
      "name": "World Flora Online Plant List",
      "note": "accepted names, authorities, classification",
      "license": "CC0",
      "url": "https://www.worldfloraonline.org/",
      "retrieved": "2026-07-12"
    }
  ],
  "license": {
    "data": "CC BY 4.0",
    "attribution": "BotanAI, https://botanai.app/genus/lythrum/"
  }
}