Lythrum borysthenicum
Loosestrife
Care Guide
💧 Water
☀️ Light Full sun
Loosestrife is a perennial herbaceous plant that prefers sunny locations and comes from open habitats, frequently occurring in meadows and grasslands. It favors full sun exposure but can also tolerate partial sun.
🌡️ Temperature 10–35°C
Loosestrife can tolerate a broad range of temperatures, but its distribution may still be restricted by particular combinations of moisture and heat. It does best in warm summer conditions with sufficient rainfall or irrigation. Long stretches of cloudy, rainy weather, as well as extended periods of high temperatures, can make Loosestrife more likely to die. In winter, protecting it from cold can increase its survival rate.
💨 Humidity
🪴 Soil 6-8
🌱 Fertilizer
The best time to fertilize a Loosestrife is in early spring, when it is coming out of dormancy and starting active growth. Fertilizing supplies essential nutrients needed for healthy growth. Although Loosestrife has comparatively low fertilizer requirements, feeding it once a year can improve its survival and encourage healthier, longer-lasting flowers.
🪴 Pot & Repot
✂️ Pruning
🌿 Propagating
🐛 Diseases & pets
☠️ Toxicity
Characteristics
- Plant Type
- Herb
- Life Cycle
- Perennial
- Genus
- Lythrum
- Family
- Lythraceae
- Hardiness Zone
- 6-9
- Mature Height
- 10 cm to 30 cm
- Mature Spread
- 5 cm to 15 cm
- Leaf Color
- Green
- Leaf Type
- Deciduous
- Flower Color
- Pink
- Flower Size
- 0.25 cm to 0.51 cm
- Bloom Time
- Early summer, Mid summer
- Planting Time
- Spring, Summer, Autumn
- Harvest Time
- Late summer, Early fall
- Native Area
- Turkey, Tunisia, Bulgaria, Greece, Morocco, Belarus, Ukraine, Russia, Portugal, Italy, Kazakhstan, Spain, Switzerland, Mongolia, Algeria, France