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Plant Habit: Herb/Forb
Life cycle: Perennial
Sun Requirements: Full Sun
Full Sun to Partial Shade
Minimum cold hardiness: Zone 3 -40 °C (-40 °F) to -37.2 °C (-35)
Maximum recommended zone: Zone 9b
Plant Height: 3' - 4'
Plant Spread: 24 - 32 inch
Leaves: Unusual foliage color
Flowers: Showy
Flower Color: Yellow
Flower Time: Late spring or early summer
Summer
Late summer or early fall
Uses: Will Naturalize
Wildlife Attractant: Bees
Butterflies
Propagation: Seeds: Depth to plant seed: cover the seeds very thin
Suitable for wintersowing
Sow in situ
Start indoors
Can handle transplanting
Other info: germination can be erratic and take up to 4 months
Propagation: Other methods: Cuttings: Root

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Common names
  • Fringed Loosestrife
  • Firecracker Loosestrife

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Location: RHS Harlow Carr, Yorkshire, UK
Date: 2020-07-25
Location: Brownstown Pennsylvania
Date: 2016-06-30
Location: My garden in Belgium
Date: 2009-08-08
not really the entire plant, just a part of it
Location: At a nursery
Date: 2008-06-25
Location: RHS Harlow Carr, Yorkshire, UK
Date: 2020-07-25
Location: Cedarhome, Washington
Date: 2016-06-23
Location: At a nursery
Date: 2008-06-25
Location: all photos from my garden
Location: My 6b garden
Date: 2015-07-30
Growing with Lysimachia Alexander.
Location: Garden
Date: 2017-97-22
Location: springfield MO
Date: 2020-03-11
Location: RHS Harlow Carr, Yorkshire, UK
Date: 2021-05-29
Location: Brownstown Pennsylvania
Date: 2016-06-30
mature plant
Location: My garden, Cottage-in-the-Meadow Gardens in South Amana, IA
Date: 2010-05-22
Location: Riverview, Robson, B.C. 
Date: 2005-07-17
The Firecracker spreads its charm abundantly.
Location: springfield MO
Date: 2019-06-09
very invasive, can't get rid of it
Location: Twisp
Location: Lucketts, Loudoun County, Virginia
Date: 2010-05-26

Credit florum

Credit florum
Location: Garden
Date: 2017-07-22
Location: My garden in Belgium
Date: 2009-08-08
Location: Brownstown Pennsylvania
Date: 2015-08-22
Location: Brownstown Pennsylvania
Date: 2016-06-18
Rather than pollenor nectar, this plant offers an oil reward to p
Location: Twisp
Date: 2015-06-30
Location: IL
Date: 2018-07-10
Grown from seed. Leaves are not as red/bronze as I expected. Mayb
Location: IL
Date: 2018-07-10
Location: So. NH
Date: 2011-07-07

Credit florum
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Comments:
  • Posted by NHJenDion (Southern NH - Zone 5b) on Oct 18, 2011 6:46 PM concerning plant:
    When crowded and given only part-full sun it spread modestly in my Zn 5 garden. When given more room and sun it spread MUCH FASTER. I can see how this plant could become invasive, spreading by runner.
  • Posted by sallyg (central Maryland - Zone 7b) on Mar 31, 2020 11:44 AM concerning plant:
    I agree about its aggressive nature. Lots of runners. It is pretty through bloom, with the yellow flowers on red foliage, but then the leaf color fades and it isn't much to look at.
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