<P> The fruit is a small 3--4 mm capsule containing numerous minute seeds . Flowering lasts throughout the summer . When the seeds are mature, the leaves often turn bright red through dehydration in early autumn; the red colour may last for almost two weeks . The dead stalks from previous growing seasons are brown . </P> <P> L. salicaria is very variable in leaf shape and degree of hairiness, and a number of subspecies and varieties have been described, but it is now generally regarded as monotypic with none of these variants being considered of botanical significance . The species Lythrum intermedium Ledeb . ex Colla is also now considered synonymous . </P> <P> Native to Europe, Asia, northwest Africa, and southeastern Australia . </P> <P> Found in ditches, wet meadows and marshes and along sides of lakes . </P>

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