| Purple loosestrife can grow to 3-9 feet tall with several, square stalks per plant. |
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| We stayed away from pretty but non-native invasive plants like purple loosestrife and Japanese honeysuckle. |
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| The margins support a range of wetland plants including brookweed, arrowhead and purple loosestrife. |
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| When the native species is suppressed, the area becomes a monoculture of purple loosestrife. |
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| Wildflowers here include water parsnip, fringed loosestrife, and hedge nettle. |
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| Place the freshly cut stems in a bottle of water and place in contact with the defoliated loosestrife plants. |
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| It worries me when we hear that they are bringing in special beetles to destroy the purple loosestrife. |
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| Examples include zebra mussel, the sea lamprey, lawn grubs, green crab and purple loosestrife. |
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| Purple loosestrife will grow vigorously and clog irrigation canals, ditches, stream banks and reservoirs, resulting in less water available for crop production and recreation. |
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| Purple loosestrife acts as a tonic and as a nutrient to restore and revive the gallbladder and liver. |
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| Early detection and treatment of second and third generation seedlings is important to prevent re-infestation of purple loosestrife. |
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| Alongside miles of rivers and streams its dense growth is overshadowing native wild flowers such as ragged robin, purple loosestrife, marsh woundwart and meadow cranesbill. |
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| Other locally common tannin-rich plants include blackberry, raspberry, rose, lady's mantle, agrimony, meadowsweet, and strawberry, geraniums, purple loosestrife, and sumacs. |
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| Vegetation-index models predict areas vulnerable to purple loosestrife invasion in Kansas. |
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| Other invasive weeds, such as purple loosestrife, Japanese knotweed and traveler's joy, also are being targeted. |
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| In the dunes is found a highly diverse flora ranging widely in climatic type from Arctic bearberry to tropical orchids and from wetlands loosestrife to desert cactus. |
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| In a science paper dated March 1997 these scientists identified that the introduced plant called purple loosestrife, Lythrum salicaria, was a serious threat to the future productivity of estuary marshes. |
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| Purple loosestrife is considered a nuisance plant in some parts of Canada and the United States because it reduces the diversity of marshland plant communities. |
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| Purple loosestrife is another example of a plant which may originally have been introduced to North America intentionally for horticultural purposes, with significant consequences for native wetland habitats. |
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| Notable examples include water hyacinth, salt cedar, and purple loosestrife. |
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| It is a riot of knapweed, tansy, meadowsweet, purple loosestrife and goldenrod and lots of butterflies. |
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| On the shoreline, there are marsh-loving plants such as meadowsweet, purple loosestrife, iris, and water lilies, plus rare species such as fen violet and pointed stonewort. |
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| Red valerian loves a dry spot, such as on top of a wall, while hemp agrimony and purple loosestrife are good for growing by a wildlife pond. |
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| Krevosky was also that the wetland the access road ran through was already filled with lythrum salicaria, better known as purple loosestrife. |
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| Among plants, Purple loosestrife is currently expanding. |
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| They love wild flowers such as poppies, valerian, loosestrife, willowherb, teasel and meadowsweet. |
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| That might seem reasonable, since there are a few species, such as kudzu, purple loosestrife, and water hyacinth, that grow with alarming speed wherever they show up. |
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| Marsh marigolds, purple loosestrife, yellow iris, bogbean, ragged robin and water mint will all grow happily in waterlogged soil and attract lots of insects. |
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| Sand Ridge staff successfully eradicated the invasive plant Purple Loosestrife through a nine-year program of monitoring and removal. |
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| Some of the most serious invaders include Purple Loosestrife, Russian Olive, Saltcedar, Buckthorn, English Ivy and Water Hyacinth. |
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