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Originally Posted by Stewart Robert Hinsley
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I think you've got it. (Thanks.) It's much smaller than the general run
of Lythrum salicaria, but I did suspect it of being a depauperate plant
of some species.
I'm used to picking purple loosestrife out as "tall purple-flowered
perennial, not rosebay or great willowherb, growing next to water",
which doesn't work for a small perennial growing in a pavement crack.
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It's increasingly available as a garden plant, in various shades of purply pink (none of them noticeably different from the wild, unless you see the two plants together). So you may still have a garden escape ;-)
Purple loosestrife, at least round here, starts flowering later than Greater Willowherb or rosebay.