Loosestrife

Some literature sources suggest that this species may have some salt tolerance as it apparently grows along the upper edges of some salt marshes, but so far as we have seen recorded, not in Florida.



Moist/wet wildflower garden.

Not salt tolerant of inundation by salty or brackish water.



Low/no tolerance of salty wind or direct salt spray

Moist-wet sites. Wet flatwoods, roadside ditches in former flatwoods.

• Showy flowers
• This plant is an insect magnet!
• It attracts insects including long-tongued bees, green metallic bees, bee flies, butterflies, and skippers.
• Among the long-tongued bees, are such visitors as honeybees, bumblebees, cuckoo bees (Epeolus spp., Triepeolus spp., Coelioxys spp.), long-horned bees (Melissodes spp., Svastra spp.), and leaf-cutting bees (Megachile spp.). 
• Syrphid flies feed on the pollen, but they are non-pollinating. (Illinois Wildflowers).