Lythrum junceumBanks & Sol.

False Grass-poly

WFO wfo-0000366892 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC0 / CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 8 separate observations

Lythrum junceum, photographed by Quentin Groom
fig. a Quentin Groom, CC0 1.0 / 2022-05-16 / obs. 198290420
Lythrum junceum, photographed by Daniela Costa
fig. b Daniela Costa, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 197842896
Lythrum junceum, photographed by Andrew Allen
fig. c Andrew Allen, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 167691212
Lythrum junceum, photographed by Edmundas Greimas
fig. d Edmundas Greimas, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 169485091
Lythrum junceum, photographed by Forest Botial-Jarvis
fig. e Forest Botial-Jarvis, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 137545099
Lythrum junceum, photographed by Daniel Das
fig. f Daniel Das, CC0 1.0 / obs. 132447018
Lythrum junceum, photographed by Daniel Das
fig. g Daniel Das, CC0 1.0 / obs. 132450794
Lythrum junceum, photographed by Daniel Das
fig. h Daniel Das, CC0 1.0 / obs. 132458641

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Native range 29 botanical countries

Regions where Lythrum junceum is native: Algeria, Azores, Canary Is., Egypt, Libya, Madeira, Morocco, Tunisia, Cyprus, East Aegean Is., Iran, Lebanon-Syria, Palestine, Sinai, Türkiye, South Australia, Victoria, Albania, Baleares, Corse, France, Greece, Italy, Kriti, Portugal, Sardegna, Sicilia, Spain, Türkiye-in-Europe AlgeriaEgyptLibyaMoroccoTunisiaCyprusEast Aegean Is.IranLebanon-SyriaPalestineSinaiTürkiyeSouth AustraliaVictoriaAlbaniaCorseFranceGreeceItalyKritiPortugalSiciliaSpainTürkiye-in-Europe AzoresCanary Is.MadeiraBalearesSardegna
Native distribution of Lythrum junceum, after Kew’s World Checklist of Vascular Plants. Introduced, extinct and doubtful records are excluded, so this is where the plant is from, not everywhere it now grows. Regions too small to draw at this scale are marked with a dot.
RegionTDWG codeContinent
Albania ALB EUROPE
Baleares BAL
Corse COR
France FRA
Greece GRC
Italy ITA
Kriti KRI
Portugal POR
Sardegna SAR
Sicilia SIC
Spain SPA
Türkiye-in-Europe TUE
Algeria ALG AFRICA
Azores AZO
Canary Is. CNY
Egypt EGY
Libya LBY
Madeira MDR
Morocco MOR
Tunisia TUN
Cyprus CYP ASIA-TEMPERATE
East Aegean Is. EAI
Iran IRN
Lebanon-Syria LBS
Palestine PAL
Sinai SIN
Türkiye TUR
South Australia SOA AUSTRALASIA
Victoria VIC

Region boundaries approximated from Natural Earth (public domain) and mapped to TDWG World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions (WGSRPD) level-3 botanical countries (Brummitt 2001). Indicative, not the official WGSRPD geometry.

Flowering 265 in flower of 267 examined

Peak flowering in Jan. Each bar is the share of Lythrum junceum observations in which someone actually recorded the reproductive state and found the plant in flower, not the raw number of flowering records. That distinction matters: people observe plants far more in spring than in winter, so a bare count of flowering records partly measures when people go outside. Dividing by the number examined removes that. 265 of 267 examined observations were in flower, every one of them research grade. The whisker on each bar is a 95% Wilson interval. One month has fewer than 5 examined observations, so no proportion is drawn for it. This is still a global aggregate and not a forecast for your garden: the same species flowers on different dates in different hemispheres. Where a species has fewer than 30 flowering records we do not draw this chart at all. Computed from 10.15468/dl.cgje2x.

Also published as 7 synonyms

A synonym is not an error. It is a record of botanists disagreeing, in print, about where this plant belongs. Each of these was somebody’s considered answer.

  • Lythrum acutangulum f. brevistyla Willk. & Lange
  • Lythrum acutangulum f. longistyla Willk. & Lange
  • Lythrum acutangulum f. mediostyla Willk. & Lange
  • Lythrum graefferi Ten.
  • Lythrum graefferi f. album P.Silva
  • Lythrum lineare Tornab.
  • Lythrum monanthum Link ex Steud.

Sourcesevery claim on this page

  1. World Flora Online Plant List. accepted name, authority, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
  2. iNaturalist. photographs and flowering annotations, CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA only. per photograph. Retrieved 2026-06-27.
  3. Wikidata. common name (P1843), joined on the World Flora Online identifier (P7715). CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-13.
  4. Kew, World Checklist of Vascular Plants (WCVP v16). native distribution by TDWG level-3 botanical country, and life form. CC BY 3.0. Retrieved 2026-06-04.

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