A beautiful example is purple loosestrife, which is good looking but an invasive species here. From Wordnik.com. [Greening America: One Household at a Time - Talking with Susan Agate and Mike Slutsky] Reference
Purple loosestrife is another big pain. From Wordnik.com. [What's Your Favorite Invasive Species?] Reference
Purple loosestrife is a wetland plant from Eurasia. From Wordnik.com. [Exotic species] Reference
There's a WWE "deathmatch" for you, kudzu versus loosestrife. From Wordnik.com. [Tuesday roadkill report] Reference
But aren't those pretty flowers beside him purple loosestrife?. From Wordnik.com. [Letters] Reference
That's another alien, but not as aggressive or useless as the loosestrife. From Wordnik.com. [Tuesday no-roadkill report] Reference
Also, the dreaded purple loosestrife has spread along the banks of the pond. From Wordnik.com. [Happy Canada Day!] Reference
Purple loosestrife (Lythrum salicaria L.) was introduced as an ornamental plant. From Wordnik.com. [Invasion fact sheet] Reference
You have become your name, loosestrife, carried on sheep, spurting up out of ballast. From Wordnik.com. [Loosestrife] Reference
And the thrice-damned purple loosestrife showing its first insidiously-attractive blooms. From Wordnik.com. [Gray] Reference
American tea was also made from raspberry leaves and stalks of whorled loosestrife plant. From Wordnik.com. [History of American Women] Reference
And the dreaded purple loosestrife, an invasive species that ain't good for much of nothing. From Wordnik.com. [Make hay while the sun shines] Reference
Blue cornflowers blooming by the roadside, also more and yet more of that damned loosestrife. From Wordnik.com. [Continued Gray] Reference
The spiked loosestrife planted by the water's edge of a pond is far finer than in the garden border. From Wordnik.com. [Scientific American Supplement, No. 299, September 24, 1881] Reference
The horses too were asleep in the purple loosestrife, and there was an intense peace over all things. From Wordnik.com. [Orrain A Romance] Reference
Also rabbit-foot clover, mullein, day-lilies, and the first of the vexed purple loosestrife of the season. From Wordnik.com. [Sunday roadkill report] Reference
But at this moment Winston noticed some tufts of loosestrife growing in the cracks of the cliff beneath them. From Wordnik.com. [Nineteen Eighty-four] Reference
Purple loosestrife (Lythrum salicaria) which now dominates many wetlands in Canada was introduced in this way. From Wordnik.com. [Exotic species] Reference
I mean, it's great that the wolf and deer population would boom, but wouldn't the purple loosestrife boom too?. From Wordnik.com. [Day in the Life of an Idiot] Reference
We freak out about Phragmites australis and about purple loosestrife out here, but we are emphatically pro-Spartina. From Wordnik.com. [vast planet] Reference
In the post, she describes releasing 7500 European Galerucella beetles, who dine almost exclusively on purple loosestrife. From Wordnik.com. [Gonads And Loosestrife] Reference
In B.C (Canada) the salicaire (purple loosestrife) is a Very Bad Plant, because it chokes out everything else in bogs especially. From Wordnik.com. [trouver - French Word-A-Day] Reference
In B. C (Canada) the salicaire (purple loosestrife) is a Very Bad Plant, because it chokes out everything else in bogs especially. From Wordnik.com. [trouver - French Word-A-Day] Reference
Goldenrod now starting to bloom, Queen Anne's lace, and I suspect I've seen the first insidious spike of the damned purple loosestrife. From Wordnik.com. [Gloom] Reference
Purple loosestrife is rearing its ugly flowerheads across the length and breadth of the Maine roadside scene, invasive alien that it is. From Wordnik.com. [Marginally better] Reference
There are few predators of purple loosestrife in North America. From Wordnik.com. [Featured Articles - Encyclopedia of Earth] Reference
The wild-flowers are willowherb, meadow-sweet, and loosestrife. From Wordnik.com. [Beauchamp's Career — Complete] Reference
Purple loosestrife can grow taller and faster than other native wetland plants. From Wordnik.com. [WBAY Action 2 News] Reference
The DNR has pictures of purple loosestrife and other invasive plants on its website. From Wordnik.com. [WBAY Action 2 News] Reference
Area cub scouts are doing their part to help control an evasive species, purple loosestrife. From Wordnik.com. [WSAW - HomePage - Headlines] Reference
Purple loosestrife is a common problem across the country and suppresses natural plant life. From Wordnik.com. [WSAW - HomePage - Headlines] Reference
On the banks are flowers -- yarrow, meadow-sweet, willow herb, loosestrife, and lady's bed-straw. From Wordnik.com. [The Wouldbegoods] Reference
Still another plant in my section, which I notice has been widely distributed by the agency of water, is the spiked loosestrife. From Wordnik.com. [The Writings of John Burroughs — Volume 05: Pepacton] Reference
DNR plant manager Kelly Kearns says the best time to clear purple loosestrife is when it's flowering because it's easier to identify. From Wordnik.com. [WBAY Action 2 News] Reference
Purple loosestrife arrived early, shaking luxuriant tangled locks along the edge of the mirror whence its own face laughed back at it. From Wordnik.com. [The Wind in the Willows] Reference
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