Lythrum maritimumKunth

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WFO wfo-0000366914 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC0 / CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 5 observations

This species has been photographed under an open licence only 5 times, so some figures below are different views of the same plant, taken on the same day, rather than different individuals. They are usually different parts of it: the leaf, the flower, the bark.

Lythrum maritimum, photographed by Ken-ichi Ueda
fig. a Ken-ichi Ueda, CC BY 4.0 / 2021-12-02 / obs. 171738575
Lythrum maritimum, photographed by Ken-ichi Ueda
fig. b Ken-ichi Ueda, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 171738580
Lythrum maritimum, photographed by cwarneke
fig. c cwarneke, CC0 1.0 / obs. 42387048
Lythrum maritimum, photographed by nebrooks
fig. d nebrooks, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 203937522
Lythrum maritimum, photographed by Cricket Raspet
fig. e Cricket Raspet, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 180891779
Lythrum maritimum, photographed by Ben Keen
fig. f Ben Keen, CC0 1.0 / obs. 55290013
Lythrum maritimum, photographed by Ben Keen
fig. g Ben Keen, CC0 1.0 / obs. 55290022
Lythrum maritimum, photographed by cwarneke
fig. h cwarneke, CC0 1.0 / obs. 42387054

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Native range 13 botanical countries

Regions where Lythrum maritimum is native: Hawaii, Argentina Northeast, Argentina Northwest, Bolivia, Brazil South, Chile Central, Chile North, Colombia, Ecuador, Juan Fernández Is., Peru, Uruguay, Venezuela HawaiiArgentina NortheastArgentina NorthwestBoliviaBrazil SouthChile CentralChile NorthColombiaEcuadorPeruUruguayVenezuela
Native distribution of Lythrum maritimum, 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.
RegionTDWG codeContinent
Argentina Northeast AGE SOUTHERN AMERICA
Argentina Northwest AGW
Bolivia BOL
Brazil South BZS
Chile Central CLC
Chile North CLN
Colombia CLM
Ecuador ECU
Juan Fernández Is. JNF
Peru PER
Uruguay URU
Venezuela VEN
Hawaii HAW PACIFIC

Not drawn on the map: Juan Fernández Is.. We hold no public-domain boundary for this region, so it is listed rather than guessed at.

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.

Also published as 5 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 alatum Hemsl.
  • Lythrum albicaule Bertero
  • Lythrum campestre Griseb.
  • Lythrum graefferi Gay
  • Lythrum lycioides Willd. 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.

We publish what we can source and we say so when we cannot. This page has no care advice and no toxicity claim, because we do not yet have those from a source we can cite.