Species Detail - Purple-loosestrife (Lythrum salicaria) - Species information displayed is based on the dataset "Local Biodiversity Action Fund (LBAF) Database".

Terrestrial Map - 10km

Distribution of the number of records recorded within each 10km grid square (ITM).
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Marine Map - 50km

Distribution of the number of records recorded within each 50km grid square (WGS84).
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Lythrum salicaria
Purple-loosestrife
NBNSYS0000003524 RecommendedWell-formed
N/A
lysal
L.
Flowering plant
Species
2
1
2
29/07/2025
29/07/2025
1 January (recorded in 1970)
14 December (recorded in 2009)
Collated by the National Biodiversity Data Centre from different sources, Local Biodiversity Action Fund (LBAF) Database, National Biodiversity Data Centre, Ireland, Purple-loosestrife (Lythrum salicaria), accessed 25 February 2026, https://maps.biodiversityireland.ie/Dataset/441/Species/29002

Records per month (across all datasets)

Records per year (across all datasets)