Index / Search / Lythrum californicum
§1 Plant
Lythrum californicum Torr. & A. Gray
vernacular California loosestrife — species · Lythraceae
§2Habit & range
Habit and range
- Growth habit
- Forb/herb, Subshrub
- Duration
- Perennial
- Group
- Dicot
- Family
- Lythraceae J. St.-Hil.
- Genus
- Lythrum
Native status, by region
- L48 Lower 48 States Native
County-level range
· 151 counties across 7 states/territories§3Cultivation
No cultivation specs.
USDA has not characterised this taxon. Roughly four out of five plants in the database lack the detailed cultivation record present here — typically because they have not been the focus of NRCS Plant Materials work. Range and distribution data are unaffected.
§4Counties, by state
Recorded in 151 counties across 7 states/territories.
Arizona view state ↗ 13 N ▾
Kansas view state ↗ 38 N ▾
- Barton 20009
- Butler 20015
- Chase 20017
- Chautauqua 20019
- Coffey 20031
- Comanche 20033
- Cowley 20035
- Crawford 20037
- Dickinson 20041
- Edwards 20047
- Elk 20049
- Ellis 20051
- Geary 20061
- Grant 20067
- Greenwood 20073
- Jewell 20089
- Kingman 20095
- Labette 20099
- Lyon 20111
- Meade 20119
- Montgomery 20125
- Morris 20127
- Neosho 20133
- Osage 20139
- Osborne 20141
- Ottawa 20143
- Pottawatomie 20149
- Pratt 20151
- Reno 20155
- Rice 20159
- Rooks 20163
- Rush 20165
- Russell 20167
- Saline 20169
- Sedgwick 20173
- Stafford 20185
- Wilson 20205
- Woodson 20207
Nevada view state ↗ 3 N ▾
New Mexico view state ↗ 5 N ▾
Oklahoma view state ↗ 20 N ▾
Texas view state ↗ 71 N ▾
- Aransas 48007
- Armstrong 48011
- Bailey 48017
- Bastrop 48021
- Bexar 48029
- Brewster 48043
- Briscoe 48045
- Brown 48049
- Burnet 48053
- Calhoun 48057
- Cameron 48061
- Carson 48065
- Castro 48069
- Childress 48075
- Clay 48077
- Comal 48091
- Coryell 48099
- Crosby 48107
- Deaf Smith 48117
- Denton 48121
- Dickens 48125
- Dimmit 48127
- Donley 48129
- Duval 48131
- Ellis 48139
- Fayette 48149
- Floyd 48153
- Garza 48169
- Gonzales 48177
- Gray 48179
- Grayson 48181
- Hale 48189
- Hansford 48195
- Hays 48209
- Hidalgo 48215
- Howard 48227
- Hutchinson 48233
- Jackson 48239
- Jim Wells 48249
- Karnes 48255
- Kendall 48259
- Kerr 48265
- Kinney 48271
- Kleberg 48273
- Lampasas 48281
- Lipscomb 48295
- Lubbock 48303
- Marion 48315
- Martin 48317
- McLennan 48309
- McMullen 48311
- Nueces 48355
- Ochiltree 48357
- Presidio 48377
- Randall 48381
- Reeves 48389
- Refugio 48391
- Robertson 48395
- Runnels 48399
- San Patricio 48409
- Scurry 48415
- Starr 48427
- Tarrant 48439
- Taylor 48441
- Terrell 48443
- Travis 48453
- Uvalde 48463
- Val Verde 48465
- Victoria 48469
- Webb 48479
- Williamson 48491
Utah view state ↗ 1 N ▾
§5Sources & provenance
USDA PLANTS
Symbol, taxonomy, distribution, cultivation specs, native status. Public domain.
plants.usda.gov/LYCA4 ↗GBIF Backbone
Canonical taxonomic identity, synonym resolution, cross-refs. CC0.
gbif.org/species/3188740 ↗Record version
Cached and built locally. Source version on this record:
usda-plants-mt-2026-05-26
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