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A list of the cultivars of Purple Loosestrife
-- don't grow them!
These cultivars result from hybridizations of Lythrum salicaria or
Lythrum
virgatum. Once thought sterile, they will cross pollinate
with wild loosestrife and produce viable seeds. (1)
| Atopurpureum |
Brightness |
Columbia Pink |
Dropmore Purple |
Firecandle |
| Flashfire |
Floralie |
Florarose |
Gypsy Blood |
Happy |
| Lady Sackville |
Morden Gleam |
Morden Pink |
Morden Rose |
Pink Spires |
| Purple Dwarf |
Purple Spires |
Robert |
RoseGleam |
Rose Queen |
| Roseum superbum |
Rosy Gem |
Rosy Glow |
The Beacon |
The Rocket |
| Tomentosum |
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SUBSTITUTE PLANTS --- with habit similar
to purple loosestife (perennial, tall, pink, red or blue, prefers a sunny
location, and blooms in mid to late summer)
NATIVE plants
plants with moist habit:
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Chelone obliqua (pink turtlehead)
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Delphinium glaucum (larkspur; many cultivars; native in western
states)
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Eupatorium purpureum (Joe Pye weed) or E. maculatum
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Hibiscus palustris (swamp rose mallow)
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Lobelia cardinalis (cardinal flower; several cultivars)
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Verbena hastata (blue vervain)
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Mimulus ringens or M. alatus (monkey flower)
plants with dry to normal habit:
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Epilobium angustifolium (fireweed, rosebay willowherb)
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Echinacea augustifolia (coneflower; tolerates moist conditions)
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Filipendula rubra (queen-of-the-prairie)
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Liatris spicata, L. pycnostachya (blazing star, gayfeather;
tolerates moisture)
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Monarda didyma (bee balm; several varieties)
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Physotegia virginaiana (false dragonhead, obedient plant)
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Sidalcea malviflora (native in western states; many cultivars)
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Salvia azurea (prairie sage; only salvia hardy in NE gardens)
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Verbena macdougallii (native in western states)
NON-NATIVE plants
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Astilbe taquetti (false spirea; tolerates dryness; late, very tall)
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Perovskia atriplicifolia (russian sage)
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Veronica spicata (spike speedwell)
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