Purple loosestrife honey
Lythrum salicaria
A dark honey from purple loosestrife, a European wetland plant that has run wild in North America and turns shores and marshes purple in summer.
- Origin
- USA and Canada – Great Lakes and the north-east
- Colour
- 114 mm · amber
- Taste
- strong, tobacco-like with age
- Plant
- Lythrum salicaria · purple loosestrife →
Colour varies by year and place; the value given is typical.
The pollen bees bring home from loosestrife is a striking dark green.
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