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|accepted_name=Lythrum lineare
|accepted_authority=Linnaeus
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Sp. Pl.
|place=1: 447. 1753
|year=1753
}}
|basionyms=
|synonyms=
|hierarchy=Lythraceae;Lythrum;Lythrum lineare
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Lythraceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Lythrum]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>species</small>[[Lythrum lineare]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 10
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Herbs </b>perennial, or subshrubs, slender, 3–15 dm, green, glabrous. <b>Stems</b> erect, much-branched distally. <b>Leaves</b> usually opposite or subopposite throughout, rarely alternate, not crowded or overlapping distally; sessile; blade narrowly linear to narrowly lanceolate, 5–40 ×1–4 mm (mostly 5–10 mm distally in inflorescences), base attenuate. <b>Inflorescences</b> racemes. <b>Flowers</b> opposite, subsessile to pedicellate, pedicel slender, 0.5–1.5 mm, distylous; floral tube obconic becoming cylindrical, 3–5 × 1 mm; epicalyx segments equal to or slightly surpassing length of sepals; petals pale purple or white, oblong to obovate, 3–4 × 1 mm, mostly shorter than floral tube; nectary absent; stamens 6. <b>Capsules</b> septicidal or septifragal. <b>Seeds</b> ca. 30, obovoid to fusiform. <b>2n</b> = 20.</span><!--

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|phenology=Flowering summer–fall.
|habitat=In and near brackish marshes of the Atlantic and Gulf coastal plains.
|elevation=0–100 m.
|distribution=In and near brackish marshes of the Atlantic and Gulf coastal plains;Ala.;Conn.;Del.;Fla.;Ga.;La.;Md.;Miss.;N.J.;N.Y.;N.C.;S.C.;Tex.;Va.
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-->{{#Taxon:
name=Lythrum lineare
|authority=Linnaeus
|rank=species
|parent rank=genus
|synonyms=
|basionyms=
|family=Lythraceae
|phenology=Flowering summer–fall.
|habitat=In and near brackish marshes of the Atlantic and Gulf coastal plains.
|elevation=0–100 m.
|distribution=In and near brackish marshes of the Atlantic and Gulf coastal plains;Ala.;Conn.;Del.;Fla.;Ga.;La.;Md.;Miss.;N.J.;N.Y.;N.C.;S.C.;Tex.;Va.
|reference=None
|publication title=Sp. Pl.
|publication year=1753
|special status=
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|genus=Lythrum
|species=Lythrum lineare
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