Lythrum

Accepted species 39 Documented here 15 Family Lythraceae

Accepted species 39 in this genus

Every accepted species in the genus is listed. A name links to its page when we hold at least three commercially licensed photographs of it. Where we do not, the row shows how many we actually found, which is usually none.

SpeciesAuthority Usable photographsPage
Lythrum salicaria L. 6,311 documented
Lythrum hyssopifolia L. 446 documented
Lythrum alatum Pursh 420 documented
Lythrum junceum Banks & Sol. 150 documented
Lythrum californicum Torr. & A.Gray 129 documented
Lythrum virgatum L. 117 documented
Lythrum portula (L.) D.A.Webb 91 documented
Lythrum tribracteatum Salzm. ex Spreng. 33 documented
Lythrum flagellare Shuttlew. ex Chapm. 17 documented
Lythrum lineare L. 11 documented
Lythrum maritimum Kunth 10 documented
Lythrum ovalifolium (A.Gray) Shuttlew. ex Koehne 10 documented
Lythrum vulneraria Ait. ex Schrank 6 documented
Lythrum gracile Benth. 4 documented
Lythrum thymifolia L. 3 documented
Lythrum intermedium Fisch. ex Colla 1 below the evidence gate
Lythrum rotundifolium Hochst. ex A.Rich. 1 below the evidence gate
Lythrum acutangulum Lag. 0 below the evidence gate
Lythrum album Kunth 0 below the evidence gate
Lythrum americanum Mill. 0 below the evidence gate
Lythrum anatolicum Leblebici & Seçmen 0 below the evidence gate
Lythrum baeticum Gonz.Albo 0 below the evidence gate
Lythrum borysthenicum (Schrank) Litv. 0 below the evidence gate
Lythrum bryantii Brandegee 0 below the evidence gate
Lythrum curtissii Fernald 0 below the evidence gate
Lythrum flexuosum Lag. 0 below the evidence gate
Lythrum hyrcanicum (Sosn.) ined. 0 below the evidence gate
Lythrum komarovii Murav. 0 below the evidence gate
Lythrum linifolium Kar. & Kir. 0 below the evidence gate
Lythrum lydiae Sytin 0 below the evidence gate
Lythrum nanum Kar. & Kir. 0 below the evidence gate
Lythrum netofa Vered, Mazar & Gazaix 0 below the evidence gate
Lythrum paradoxum Koehne 0 below the evidence gate
Lythrum schelkovnikovi Sosn. 0 below the evidence gate
Lythrum silenoides Boiss. & Noë 0 below the evidence gate
Lythrum theodori Sosn. 0 below the evidence gate
Lythrum thesioides M.Bieb. 0 below the evidence gate
Lythrum volgense D.A.Webb 0 below the evidence gate
Lythrum wilsonii Hewson 0 below the evidence gate

Why some species have no pagethe gate

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 needs at least three usable photographs before we will build it a page, because a page with one picture and no traits tells you nothing you could not get from a search result, and generating hundreds of thousands of those is precisely the practice that got the previous version of this site deleted.

So the species above without a link are not errors and they are not omissions. They are real, accepted plants that we cannot yet document to the standard we hold ourselves to, and the count in the photographs column is exactly how far short we fall.

Sourcesevery claim on this page

  1. World Flora Online Plant List. Accepted names, authorities, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
  2. iNaturalist. Photograph counts, restricted to CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA. Retrieved 2026-06-27.