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Meanings of spiked loosestrife in English

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lythrum salicaria

Marsh herb with a long spike of purple flowers; originally of Europe but now rampant in eastern United States.

lythrum salicaria
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Examples for "purple loosestrife"
Examples for "purple loosestrife"
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The horses too were asleep in the purple loosestrife, and there was an intense peace over all things.
Orrain: A Romance
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By still ponds, to which the moorhens have now returned, tall spikes of purple loosestrife rise in bunches.
Nature Near London
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As trade with the colonies grew, more purple loosestrife was dumped along American shores as ships jettisoned ballast before taking on cargo.
The world without us
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Purple loosestrife is surely one of the worst invaders the American landscape has seen.
Wicked plants
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I have wonderful facts, the result of experiment, on Lythrum salicaria.
More Letters of Charles Darwin — Volume 1 / A Record of His Work...
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On the Sexual Relations of the Three Forms of Lythrum salicaria.
Life and Letters of Charles Darwin — Volume 2
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Wirtgen "Ueber Lythrum salicaria und dessen Formen" 'Verhand.
The Different Forms of Flowers on Plants of the Same Species
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Wirtgen on Lythrum salicaria.
The Different Forms of Flowers on Plants of the Same Species
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The most remarkable case is that of the three different forms of the loosestrife ( Lythrum salicaria) here figured (Fig.
Darwinism (1889) / An exposition of the theory of natural select...
Usage of spiked loosestrife in English
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Still another plant in my section, which I notice has been widely distributed by the agency of water, is the spiked loosestrife.
The Writings of John Burroughs — Volume 05: Pepacton
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