Lythrum junceum Creeping Loosestrife
In some ways, particularly the colour and shape of the flower, this is reminiscent of Lythrum salicaria our familiar Purple Loosestrife from the British Isles. It too grows in wet places of which there are very few to be found in Rhodes in May.
Lythrum junceum is a bird-seed alien in the British Isles and sometimes confused with our rare native Lythrum hyssopifolia (Grass Poly). This explains its other common name: False Grass Poly.
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By stream between Asklipio and Monastery. Rhodes, 15th May 2010
Added on 10th December 2010, updated 1st March 2012