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The Purple Loosestrife is a common flour, native to

Europe, Asia, Africa and Australia. Now found in


Canada and the USA, although it is not native to
these countries. The Purple Loosetrife on average
grows about 1.5 meters tall, and has reddish-purple
flowers with six petals. Small green leafs near the
base to the start of the flours. The flours blossom
into a small 3-4mm fruit, that contains many small
seeds. The Purple Loosetrife, or as better know by
the scientific community as the Lythrum Salicaria is
an eukaryotic autotroph, like almost every other
common plant, in kingdom plantae.
The Purple Loosetrife will Things that make a Purple
Purple loosestrife reproduce by seeds, like a Loosestrife classify it into its
trypical angiosperm. A typical life phylum are it's reproductive
cycle of one is where a bug of flowers, it only has two
Scientific classification
some sort, ususaly a bee or a pollen sacks on the stamen,
Domain: Eukarya butterfly will come up and a carpel encloses the the
Kingdo: Plantae pollinate the plant. When the ovules to make the flower
Phylum: Magnoliophyta seeds are ready, they will mainly made for more specialized
Class: Magnoliopsida be spread around by wind, but pollination systems and
Order: Myrtales can also have that done by control. It has a very high
Family: Lythraceae animals. Seeds will sprout under rate of diversity, male and
Genus: Lythrum the right conditions and the female parts reduced in size
process will continue. and has an endosperm.
Species: L. salicaria

The Purple Loosetrife is a main food


source for certain beetles and moths. If it
were to go extinct so would the species of
insects who feed off of it, causing a major
gap in the food chain. The plant is a
invasive species, so if it did go extinct it
would increase the value of the wetlands.
Commerical impications of the plant
becoming extinct would be the loss of a
medication for diarrhoea and dysentery,
but wouldn't cause lots of trouble due to
the wide verity of other medications for
these problems.
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