Floating Beauty

This kind of raft moored alongside a local lake a couple of days ago:

The flower is Lythrum salicaria or purple-loosestrife:

It grows natively across temperate Europe, Asia, northwest Africa, and parts of Australia. It has also spread and become a naturalized, invasive plant in North America and New Zealand, thriving in wet soils and open areas.

And that is it for today. As usual, all photographs + text are original und my own, copyright (C) 2026 Valerian V Kadyshev.

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