I'm not a botanist, but I'm pretty sure this is purple loosestrife (Lythrum salicaria). It's interesting, and encouraging, to see that these grow in the absolute harshest part of our property nutrition- and seawater-wise.
Any tips on how to help this spread? Cut it once the seeds are ripe? Leave it be? Shake it vigorously?
by ThursdaysWithDad
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Are you in the US? If so, this is a very invasive species
Nice to see! Also ashamed to admit I did not know your country existed 😅 it looks like a beautiful place!
No everything is clear once you look for your location and stuff. I think there is just a lot of us from North America where this is very invasive. And I find unless you’re actually searching where the poster is from, it’s kind of hard and we just tend to assume it’s North American. It is actually a pretty nice flower in its native habitat.
It was interesting as an American visiting northern Germany a number of years ago and seeing purple loosestrife in its native environment where it was behaving nicely.
Unfortunately in the US it is a very aggressive invasive plant that creates monocultures. Even the beetles imported to eat the plants didn’t make much of an impact.
Ha. Did I inspire this talking about Michigan on your last post?
This is absolutely Purple Loosestrife because I have cut down a hell of a lot of it in the last months.
So weird to see that where it’s supposed to be