Lythraceae
Shrubby yellowcrest
Heimia salicifolia
- Family
- Lythraceae
- Genus
- Heimia
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Common names
By language (8)
- arz
- هيميا ساليسيفوليا
- Chinese
- 黄薇属, 柳叶霓裳花, 柳叶黄薇
- English
- Shrubby yellowcrest
- French
- Heimia, Sinicuichi
- German
- Sinicuichi
- Portuguese
- Heimia
- Russian
- Хеймия
- Spanish
- Heimia, Sinicuichi
Synonyms
- Chrysolyga salicifolia Willd. ex Steud.
- Decodon salicifolius (Kunth) Kuntze
- Ginoria flava Moc. & Sessé ex DC.
- Ginoria syphilitica Moc. & Sessé ex DC.
- Heimia grandiflora Hook.
- Heimia linariifolia G.Don
- Heimia salicifolia var. grandiflora Lindl.
- Heimia syphilitica DC.
- Lythrum flavum Spreng.
- Nesaea linariifolia Steud.
- Nesaea salicifolia Kunth
- Nesaea syphilitica (DC.) Steud.
Characteristics
- Growth habit
- Shrub
- Lifespan
- Perennial
- In the US and Canada
- Lower 48 states: native
Photos
Photo: Juan Carlos Fonseca Mata, CC BY-SA 4.0, from Wikimedia Commons 
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Photo: peganum from Henfield, England, CC BY-SA 2.0, from Wikimedia Commons 
Photo: peganum from Henfield, England, CC BY-SA 2.0, from Wikimedia Commons 
Photo: peganum from Henfield, England, CC BY-SA 2.0, from Wikimedia Commons 
Photo: peganum from Henfield, England, CC BY-SA 2.0, from Wikimedia Commons 
Photo: peganum from Henfield, England, CC BY-SA 2.0, from Wikimedia Commons 
Photo: peganum from Henfield, England, CC BY-SA 2.0, from Wikimedia Commons 
Photo: peganum from Henfield, England, CC BY-SA 2.0, from Wikimedia Commons 
Photo: Consultaplantas, CC BY-SA 4.0, from Wikimedia Commons
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Sources: classification, synonyms from World Flora Online Plant List (2026-06, CC0 1.0); common names, popularity from Wikidata (2026-10-26, CC0 1.0); common names, US characteristics from USDA PLANTS Database (2025-05-29, CC0 1.0). About our plant data.